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self-returning One which does not fall asun- 

 der into sex is spirit, the Ego. Here the 

 fact may be noted that Darwin's famous book, 

 Origin of Species,is really seeking for this one 

 generative Process of living individuals, 

 Plant and Ainmal, in their vast diversity. To 

 be sure, such is not his conscious purpose; 

 he will show the cause or source of variations 

 of Species, not the source of Species itself, 

 which indeed calls for the primal individua- 

 tion of Life. Species being given, he investi- 

 gates how and why it will vary. But this in- 

 vestigation cannot stop till it reaches to the 

 origin not only of Species but of Species- 

 making, in fact of Nature herself. Still the 

 work of Darwin was epoch-turning, since it 

 threw the age upon the thought of Evolution, 

 though not original with him, and led up, of 

 its own inherent logic, to the still deeper prob- 

 lem: Does Evolution itself evolve, or is it 

 done with itself! 



But this question, discussed elsewhere yet 

 rising to the surface here and everywhere, 

 must now be set aside for considering the 

 Generative Process of Animal-life in its spe- 

 cial ordering. As in the case of Plant-life, 

 we shall look at it in its three main aspects: 

 single Generation (asexual), double Genera- 

 tion (sexual), total Generation (or animal 

 Generation as a whole, in its entire line of 



