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from the Heliosphere, which act we may con- 

 sider its first or inorganic birth. 



In this generative Process of Earth-life 

 we can behold three stages, as in Plant-life 

 and Animal-life, though the former be quite 

 different and unique in its way. Still they 

 all are homologous, and we shall call them 

 by the same names. So we have at present 

 Single Generation, which is not only asexual 

 but inorganic and hence external; Double 

 Generation, in which is the movement from 

 the Inorganic to the Organic, with the appear- 

 ance of life and sex ; finally Total Generation 

 will go back to the past and take up the whole 

 line of Earth-life in its evolution through the 

 geologic ages. In this common nomenclature 

 we may note a common principle of Genera- 

 tion running through all three Life-forms 

 Plant, Animal, Earth. 



1. Single Generation of Earth-life. Let it 

 be remembered that this deals with the in- 

 organic act of the Earth 's Generation through 

 the primal rotation of Matter, which results 

 in separation, or in a kind fissiparism, 

 which is of course non-vital, yet in 

 a sense monogenetic. Now this externally 

 generative process which belongs to the whole 

 Cosmos, is to become internally generative 

 in each separated part, when the latter gets 

 to be alive. But the long evolution from 



