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course not spiritually but naturally. Sex, ac- 

 cordingly, taps the genetic reservoir of total 

 creation for its creative energy, though this 

 be only a little drop trickling down into the 

 individual. And it may be here added that 

 the individuation of Nature comes to its most 

 intensely expressed dualism in sex in the 

 two mutually sexed individuals whose func- 

 tion it is at last to overcome this dualism. 

 For in sex the individual feels his insufficiency 

 as a whole, feels his halfness, so to speak and 

 will integrate himself with his other half. 

 Thus even the organism has the impulse to 

 totalize itself, or within its sphere to make 

 itself universal, especially by going back to 

 its own beginning (say in the cell) and repro- 

 ducing its origin transforming itself from 

 the generated into the generator of the gen- 

 erated. 



The living individual as animal comes in 

 the course of its development to challenge its 

 own origin as something given, as something 

 imposed upon it externally, in which it took 

 no part. Having had no hand in its own cre- 

 ation, it grows to be reactionary to the coerc- 

 ing law of its own being; it will not passively 

 remain the made, but will be the maker of 

 itself as made; it will ascend to the fountain 

 of its own existence, and there will make it- 

 self over, will re-enact the law of its own gene- 



