MECHANISM OF NATURE 



cause, every living identity can be divided and 

 every higher identity can be separated into organs 

 that together make up the whole; therefore, that 

 whole is not a primary identity. 



The human body has many fibers and each fiber 

 consists of many atoms, yet the human body may 

 be dismembered and every fiber disorganized, and 

 yet leave the identity of the atoms unimpaired. 



Our teeth, which belong to our own proper iden- 

 tity, may be extracted, one by one, and transferred 

 into the identities of others. 



Modern surgery has substituted or transferred 

 many parts of the human body, and brain and 

 heart have been fixed up again, after terrible in- 

 jury. 



Then, it is evident that a subordinate identity 

 within a higher identity may be destroyed without 

 destroying the higher identity, and the higher 

 identity may be disorganized without destroying 

 the lesser identity within it. 



And that which binds all subordinate identities 

 together in one higher identity is the life of that 

 higher identity, and its growth is the multiplica- 

 tion and the growth of lesser identities, and the 

 reproduction of the higher identity is the bring- 

 ing together of similar subordinate identities into 

 a similar higher identity. 



Then it is evident that the life of the subordinate 

 identity is as truly life as is the life of the higher 

 identity until the subdivision shall arrive at pri- 

 mary identity. 



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