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division or of individuation. That is, there is 

 no inner self-return out of this separation of 

 Life ; the individual cell halves itself, and the 

 second half (as it may be called) becomes a 

 new individual external to the first, not re- 

 turning to it and forming one inner process 

 in one individuality. That would indeed be 

 not Life, but Ego or Self-consciousness to- 

 ward which Life is moving, and which is its 

 secret motive energy. Just now it manifests 

 itself in the self-division of the living cell, but 

 the divided part is not taken back into its 

 source but remains another individual cell, 

 which in its turn reproduces itself in like 

 manner. The first cell, however, having given 

 away its half-life, never fully recovers its 

 primal energy, though it may still throw off 

 other individuals. Gradually it loses its re- 

 productive power, and then its vital activity; 

 the individual cell dies, having exhausted its 

 original store of energy. Death is the mani- 

 festation of Life's negative; the mortality of 

 the cell indicates that it cannot restore itself 

 after its own self-division, but is giving up 

 Life through reproducing Life in its cellular 

 progeny. Thus cell-life has its analogy to 

 the so-called infinite division of matter, 

 which is also a search for completing the 

 process of Nature's separation by getting 

 back to the source, though matter as such is 



