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re-forming that, and thus re-making its first 

 appearance (see the above Process of Animal 

 Form). 



Looking again at the foregoing Process of 

 Assimilation we note that, though it repro- 

 duces its own given body, it cannot reproduce 

 its starting-point, it cannot recreate its total 

 self. TBe outcome of Assimilation is to re- 

 produce all the separate organs of the body; 

 but now the Animal must advance to the re- 

 production of this reproduction; the individ-, 

 ual as a whole (not merely in its organic 

 parts) is to be reproduced and to unfold 

 through its period. The Animal as complete 

 is not only to generate itself as begun but also 

 as beginning which is the true generation. 

 To assimilate simply is to patch up the old 

 individual with fresh fibres, but to generate 

 is to reproduce just this individual able to 

 assimilate and to generate. Or we may say 

 the organism having assimilated must at last 

 come to re-make itself assimilating and gen- 

 erating. 



So there are two reproductions, that of the 

 already given organism and that of the as 

 yet nn given organism; we might call them 

 the subjective and the objective reproductions 

 -in the latter the Animal reproduces itself 

 completely as object. We can also categorize 

 them as the assimilative and the generative 



