34 THE EVOLUTION OF CONTINUITY 



tion followed by an Act of Repttlsion. This is offered 

 here as the key to all growth-cycles, be they those of 

 bacteria, plants, or animals, all higher cycles being 

 but multiple expressions of this unit-cycle. Thus, we 

 recognise in the act of attraction between A and B 

 atomic " conjugation " ; in AB, the unit " somatic 

 tissue " ; in the restoration of A and B, the " reproduc- 

 tion " of the " atom-gametes," whose union started the 

 cycle. The diagram, in fact, would represent the growth- 

 cycle of a complete bi-atomic "Individual." 



