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ing itself. As living it must be re-making it- 

 self incessantly. Each organ and indeed each 

 cell is ever bringing forth the whole organism 

 which brings it forth. Every part is both 

 means and end, the maker and the made, with- 

 in its round of existence. So far it may be 

 deemed self-end; still it is not the finality, it 

 too must be subsumed under something high- 

 er, being a link in the great evolutionary chain 

 of Nature, for the entire chain must be sub-, 

 sumed. 



The Animal Form has also its periods of 

 time stamped upon it indelibly birth, youth, 

 maturation, decline; thus it has its temporal 

 as well as its spatial limits, both of which it 

 posits through itself. Such we may deem the 

 leading fact in this sphere : Form is imposed 

 on the organism from without by Nature, but 

 must be re-imposed by the organism itself 

 from within Nature's gift must be continu- 

 ally confirmed anew by the recipient, who has 

 to make over into his own his external de- 

 termination. The fateful Form must, there- 

 fore, be always reformed and renewed, if it 

 is to live; to be sure, man can destroy his 

 life at a stroke and turn his organism back 

 into the elements. He can play suicide and 

 become anarchist to himself. In his universal 

 revolt against all Form transmitted or in- 

 herited, he may conclude to direct a blow at 



