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consider their Genera tion.' ; The last has in- 

 deed the stress; it treats of the organic indi- 

 vidual in its highest function, that of repro- 

 ducing its own separate individuation, and 

 thus of continuing itself beyond its own lim- 

 ited existence. This touches the doctrine of 

 germinal continuity upon which modern biol- 

 ogy is laboring with so much zeal and indus- 

 try. Aristotle glimpsed the deep significance 

 of the generative process of Life, and makes 

 upon it many subtle observations scattered 

 through his scattered treatises. 



But we recur to the thought that Aristotle 

 was not confined to biology or to any single 

 department of Nature or of Mind. He was 

 not the modern specialist in one branch of 

 science; he knew all its branches, and would 

 not only co-ordinate them with one another 

 but also with the universe itself. From him 

 could spring the true university, based upon 

 an universal world- view which ordered all the 

 variety of special knowledge. His school con- 

 tinued his work for hundreds of years under 

 its so-called scholarchs. So with the coming 

 of the new Aristotle we may also think of the 

 coming of the new University which will be 

 truly universal and be organized and unified 

 by the science universal. 



Another point in Aristotle's conception of 

 Nature should not be omitted. In all organic 



