PATHOLOGY. 



(the Pampsycliosis) which has the original 

 self-division whose manifestation is Nature. 

 So it comes that all Nature is divisive, and 

 self -divisive, quite to infinity, but she has no 

 complete self-return, though this is what she 

 is seeking, yea what she is manifesting ex- 

 ternally. But when Nature overcomes her 

 self-division completely, that is just her end, 

 she has ceased to be, having transcended her 

 original and pervasive endowment. The 

 death of the living individual is, universally 

 considered, the death of all individuation and 

 separation as such, the mortality of all mor- 

 tality, or the mortal served up to itself dia- 

 lectically. Here we may glimpse, as the posi- 

 tive result of the foregoing process, immor- 

 tality, which belongs not to Nature properly, 

 being just her negation. 



Pathology, the science of disease, may in 

 its widest sense be regarded as the science of 

 the negative Biocosmos, which has indeed va- 

 rious stages. It has to be introduced with 

 the cell which in many ways may become the 

 source of disease, this being in itself a new 

 separation from the normal process of the 

 organism (indicated in the particle dis). In- 

 deed all Nature as separative is subject to 

 disease inherently, which is only a wrong sort 

 of separation a kind of dialectic in which 

 separation turns against itself. The tumor is 



