ANIMAL LIFE FORMATION. 85 



Indeed our organism begins and ends with a 

 microbe, and thus the Form of the higher Ani- 

 mal is a vast organization of Forms out of 

 which it is evolved and to which it is resolved. 



The universe as Pampsychosis has its 

 counterpart, but still its part, in the multi- 

 verse of Nature, whose fundamental trait is 

 this individuation of Forms, which thus reach 

 down to the bottom of creation. But next 

 we shall take one of these typical organic 

 Forms of the Animal and watch it dividing, 

 that is, forming within itself. 



2. The Animal Organism in Its Dual Sym- 

 metry. That the higher animal is halved 

 lengthwise and that these halves are clapped 

 together into the one living organism with its 

 process, has been observed by most people on 

 their own bodies. This is known as bi-lateral 

 symmetry, which is so prominent in the hu- 

 man organism, wherein Nature seems to be 

 pushing her dualism to its extreme embodi- 

 ment in order to make the completer unity of 

 Form. A perpetual interchange and coales- 

 cence are going on between these opposite 

 yet symmetrical parts, ever overcoming their 

 separation, yet positing it again. The fact 

 suggests, indeed adumbrates, the psychical 

 process of division and return, though it is 

 not yet the Ego. The conceived line of de- 

 marcation is called the median line, halving 



