476 THE BIOCOSMOS HISTORICAL. 



knowing Self, is a matter of conjecture; but 

 we observe that every human infant has to 

 go through the same process. (See preced- 

 ing p. 47.) 



If we consider more closely the foregoing 

 transition, we shall take Generation as the 

 highest process of Nature, and regard it in 

 its relation to Consciousness. The halfness 

 of the sexed individual rises to be the whole- 

 ness of the Ego; every human being is an 

 entire self within himself, we may say, an 

 image of the All-Self; but only a moiety he is 

 as male or female, both of which are Nature's 

 sides of a higher totality in which both are to 

 participate together., Germinal continuity 

 of the race, which may be said to be the lead- 

 ing theme of present biology, is not through 

 one but through both; the dualism of Nature, 

 manifested at its highest point in the sexes, 

 must be overcome, even momentarily, that it 

 continue; the two sexed individuals are to 

 become one that they may persist as two 

 through generation. The dialectic of Nature 

 can be heard in the statement that sex must 

 transcend sex in order to exist as sex; or the 

 supreme dualism of Nature has to be unified 

 that it be dual. Now Consciousness has this 

 dualism, present also, but perpetually over- 

 coming and overcome ; the two sides we desig- 

 nate with new names, subject and object, 



