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of something generated, while the latter indicat generating qualities united 
with something generated. : 
I may here add another simile? as an explanation of my conception of 
individuals and genes. The universe is like a boundless net with innumera- 
ble millions of crystalline beads, each on a mesh of a different colour, each 
reflecting the images of other beads, and each consequently presenting different 
hues, according to the position of the observer. The beads present different 
hues, according as they are observed from this point or that. It is, however, 
only in their phenomena that they are different; in their real entities, they 
are all and ever the same crystalline beads. Each bead with innumerable 
millions of reflected images (say dots) of all varieties of colours (of which it 
must be understood some are visible, but some are invisible, according 
to the position of the observer) is something like an individual, and the 
images on each bead (the dots of different colours) correspond, so to speak, 
to the genes of which I have spoken above. 
, The most important point in my theory is that, however much we may 
have spoken both of real entity and of the phenomenal appearance, of 
individuals and genes, independently one from the other, yet the two should 
only be thinkable in their identity in oneness, and be inconceivable indepsn- 
dently of one another. 
As can be seen from the explanation given above, the first theory, that 
an individual is not to be considered as a character of a single quality, but 
as in reality a compound of different things generated by different genes, 
is called the theory of the mutual participation of the gene; the other theory, 
that the relation of individuals to others in their -particularity is the relation 
of the mutual sharing of genes in phenomenal appearance (potent genes) in 
individuals, is called the theory of the mutual sharing of the gene. 
According to these theories, all individuals or species are one and the 
same in their real entity, and that there are so many different species is due 
1) In presenting this metaphor to my reader, I have been influenced by a suggestion from 
the Indra-nets, an allegory found in one of the Buddhist scriptures, which is called the 
Mahavaipulya buddha-ganda vytha - sitra (Kegonkyé). For this allegory, I am indebted to 
Professor J. Matsumura; I have not myself consulted the original scripture. 
