COSMIC PHILOSOPHY 



Universally the tendency of things, amid the 

 conflict of unlike forces, is toward heteroge- 

 neity. 



Coincident with the differentiation of aggre- 

 gates, there is a differentiation of the incident 

 forces. When a moving body is broken up by 

 collision, its original momentum is severed into 

 a group of momenta, which differ both in 

 amount and in direction. The ray of solar light 

 which falls upon the foliage of a tree and upon 

 the wall of the brick building behind it, is sep- 

 arated by reflection into red and green rays, in 

 which the undulations differ both in height and 

 in breadth. Each portion of the differentiated 

 force must in its turn enter as a factor into new 

 differentiations. The more heterogeneous an 

 aggregate becomes, the more rapidly must dif- 

 ferentiation go on ; because each of its com- 

 ponent units may be considered as a whole, 

 bearing relations to the other units similar to 

 those which the aggregate bears to other aggre- 

 gates ; and thus the differentiation of the whole 

 must be followed by the differentiation of the 

 parts. There must thus be a multiplication of 

 effects as heterogeneity increases ; because, with 

 increasing heterogeneity, the forces which bod- 

 ies and parts of bodies mutually exert upon 

 each other must become ever more varied and 

 complex in their amounts and directions. 



We may see, therefore, that differentiation is 

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