DE VI PHYSICA ET 

 IMBECILLITATE DARWINIANA, 



Quid possit oriri, 

 Quid nequeat. 



LUCRETIUS. 



IN the beginning, says Goethe, was the 

 Act; but he is wrong: there is something 

 prior even to the act the POWER. For 

 nothing can begin to be, which had not first 

 the power to be : the POWER-TO-BE must 

 necessarily and inevitably, always and 

 everywhere, precede the BEING, otherwise 

 there can be no BECOMING. What is im- 

 potent, cannot generate : and what is im- 

 possible, does not happen. Therefore it is. 

 that, as Aristotle alone of all the philosophers 

 understood, Power and Possibility are the 

 root and core of all Nature. 

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