MECHANISM -OF NATURE 



the necessary result of the death of an old iden- 

 tity, and everywhere the material of the dying 

 identity by occupying more room pushes out the 

 limits of the new identity. 



And the twelve parent identities that have within 

 them formed a new identity constitute now (the 

 thirteen together) one of twelve larger identities 

 which shall in turn give birth to a new larger 

 identity. 



Does this apply only to atoms and molecules? 

 Evidently not. 



For in ever widening circles the processes of 

 growth are repeated, and the most complex iden- 

 tity, the living human body, grows as other iden- 

 tities grow, and these identical hands are the prod- 

 ucts of those atoms that organized from the pri- 

 mary spheres of void matter. 



Because this grain of wheat will grow into a 

 wheat stalk and the wheat stalk will reproduce the 

 grain of wheat, therefore, within this grain of 

 wheat lies that capability of organizing the new 

 wheat stalk and the new grain of wheat. 



And because no force is inherent in matter 

 (Prop. XII, B. 1), therefore, the grain of wheat 

 we sow can only mould through the agency of 

 universal force the universal matter into its own 

 form. And there must be within that grain of 

 wheat a material organization of particles, such 

 that both new wheat stalk and head and new 

 grain must needs be moulded from those old iden- 

 tities that shall perish to build up the new. 



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