328 THE BIOCOSMOS PARTICULARIZED. 



that creative individuation, which belongs to 

 all Nature, is indeed the very soul of Nature 

 sprung of her primal separation from and in 

 the All. For we may deem Nature the Multi- 

 verse born of, yet remaining in, the Universe. 

 Each living unit has this universal power (or 

 power of the Universe) of separating itself 

 into many individuals. So far back we trace 

 Generation, to its primal source, which must 

 be the Generation of all Generation, in which 

 the Animal as genetic individual participates, 

 thus showing itself to be an organic member 

 of the supreme original Totality the Part 

 sharing in the Process of the Whole. 



The Animal likewise has its norm or ideal 

 prototype transmitted from individual to in- 

 dividual, which fact is realized in the vast 

 repetition of shapes, each of them being a sort 

 of copy of the originative norm. Every Or- 

 ganism as genetic has an immortal part which 

 is just this animal norm and which it hands 

 down to its offspring. Still every individual 

 has a mortal part; it is pre-formed, limited, 

 fated, transitory ; it goes through its fixed pe- 

 riod of birth, maturity, decline, decease. Yet 

 it has the power of re-making and projecting 

 this individuality through time indefinitely, 

 and thus has an eternal element. 



So the Organism through Generation keeps 

 reproducing the pre-established Form of the 



