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sphere a form which recalls the total Earth- 

 life and likewise the microscopic beginning, 

 the cell. The Head we may think as clapped 

 on a tree-trunk (vegetal), which throws off 

 self-moving limbs in the Extremities (ani- 

 mal), which, however, are directed from the 

 top (mental). Such is the pyramid of Forms 

 from base to apex which we may see in the 

 human organism, a re-incarnation of the total 

 line of evolution from start to completion. 



The Process of the animal Form takes the 

 organism in its immediate appearance, as 

 space-occupying; but in this appearance is to 

 be seen the external manifestation of the in- 

 ner idea of the Animal. Now this Form is 

 something given, already made; so we ask 

 what makes it or forms it, putting it into this 

 pre-established mould or type? Animal-life 

 which keeps re-forming itself, must be con- 

 tinuously sustained from the outside. This 

 brings us to a new Process of Animal -life, the 

 second. 



II. THE ASSIMILATIVE PROCESS OF ANIMAL 

 LIFE. The first fact which strikes us in this 

 new stage is its specialization into a large 

 number of organs. The living organism is 

 now organized in the greatest detail. Life in 

 order to seize and assimilate the outer world 

 employs an enormous variety of implements, 

 which we at present have to, classify accord- 



