ANIMAL LIFE GENERATION. 



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and thirst, but therein has not really satisfied 

 itself or its deepest necessity, which is to re- 

 make itself as a whole or to objectify itself as 

 a living individual. In Assimilation the Or- 

 ganism is a vast laboratory, in which the 

 chemist recomposes himself while decompos- 

 ing himself, so that Chemism here does not 

 fall assunder, as it does in the Diacosmos. 

 Still such chemist has not only to assimilate 

 his Organism, but to generate it as the high- 

 est end of Nature. Now the result of Gener- 

 ation on our planet has been a series of indi- 

 vidual forms trailing through time down to 

 the present. This series as a whole must also 

 be considered. 



3. Total Generation of Animal-life. Evo- 

 lution has brought out into strong relief the 

 whole line of Animal-life; in fact biology in 

 its dominant evolutionary trend has largely 

 dealt with the Animal as a more pronounced 

 living individual than the Plant. Total Gen- 

 eration would include the entire result of the 

 generative Process of Animal-life; it views 

 the creative norm of the animal realizing it- 

 self not merely in a single individual, but in 

 the completely ordered kingdom of shapes. 



There are three phases or lines of this 

 realm of total Generation. (1) The present 

 existent forms of the animal world from low- 

 est to highest are to be graded into system 



