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strosities in which the mould appears to be 

 broken in places. Still Nature pours every 

 living individual, Plant or Animal, into its 

 fore-ordained matrix, within which it has on 

 the whole very slight freedom of transforma- 

 tion; its external shape is fated. The human 

 Form with all its differences is fixed on a 

 common model, which without question has 

 evolved, from lower animals ; indeed scientists 

 are correlating it more and more not only 

 with monkeys but with fishes and even with 

 worms. Such we may deem the primal Fate 

 of Nature : she impresses outer Form upon all 

 animate existence truly her first act of in- 

 dividualizing Life. Man has to submit and 

 to accept his Form as imposed; but he can 

 ask the question : Will he ever be able to 

 wrest this power from Nature and to build 

 his own outer Form in correspondence with 

 his inner freedom? It is said that this pres- 

 ent Form of his is the highest visible manifes- 

 tation of Nature, incorporating a gleam of the 

 Divine Idea, and thus bringing to appearance 

 the Beautiful. Or we may say that this hu- 

 man framework is the All-Self (Pampsy- 

 chosis), revealed in the supreme shape of Na- 

 ture. Hence its importance in Art, wherein 

 it is taken to manifest the Godlike. 



While in this way the Animal Form is fixed, 

 it is internally very active, always reproduc- 



