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halves, so as to become one in the process of 

 its Organism. 



This dual symmetry, present in every or- 

 ganism which Life brings forth, may well be 

 regarded as the impress of Nature herself 

 upon her living forms, showing her inherent 

 dualism in all her creatures. She must be 

 twofold, halved to be a whole, bi-formed to be 

 one form. Life is indeed the unification of 

 the twofoldness of Nature which still remains 

 twofold in its outer manifestation, else it 

 would no longer be Nature. Life, therefore, 

 is always positing the two sides of Nature 

 in the very oneness of its process. This vital 

 oneness is to be identified as the Psyche now 

 gotten inside the Physis, ever overcoming the 

 dualism yet ever replacing it afresh. Such 

 is the round everywhere manifested in the 

 Biocosmos, the outer Form of which we may 

 glimpse in this dual symmetry of the Organ- 

 ism. 



3. The Plant Organism differentiated. To- 

 day there seems a tendency among botanists 

 to separate the Plant Organism into two 

 parts, root and shoot. Under the latter are 

 included the stem and branches with the 

 leaves. Verbally considered, the root is as 

 much of. a shoot as the twigs and foliage, 

 though the one works in the soil and the other 

 in the air. But the deeper objection to such 



