346 THE BIOCOSMOS PARTICULARIZED. 



the half can rise to be the whole only for a 

 moment in Nature, then it drops back into 

 itself again, into the previous dualism it 

 cannot universalize itself as persistent and 

 thus be Spirit, but remains Nature. Still it 

 reproduces its own Form, and on this side 

 returns to the given Form, to the type, in the 

 new individual, which is still a half and sexed, 

 and which will show the same natural inade- 

 quacy and limitation which has been seen in 

 the parents. 



Thus the generative Process of Animal-life 

 winds up in an endless series of transitory 

 individuals, children of Time's succession, in 

 which they begin and cease. But while the 

 individuals rise and vanish, the species or 

 the norm persists and evolves into the mul- 

 titudinous diversity of shapes present and 

 past. Here we may again add that from this 

 point of view the two sexes as separate are 

 only potential, a possibility, which becomes 

 reality in the genus embracing both or in their 

 generative unity. Parenthood even in the 

 realm of Nature re-unites the separated in- 

 dividuality with its Creator. 



The animal as generative we may call a liv- 

 ing Universal, not a spiritual ; it rises to par- 

 ticipation in the creative fountain-head tran- 

 sitorily, then falls back into its own individual 

 separation. The animal satisfies its hunger 



