6 The First Lines of Morphology 
look for spherical forms as those dominant in the orgasms in 
it, or, at all events, for such forms as show that, but for the 
presence of influences either preventing the development of the 
spherical, or causing departures from it, they would have been 
spherical. This is our first landing place. 
And let us, in a few words, show how nature verifies this 
deduction. And, in order to this, we may consider two cases— 
(1.) That in which the difference between the medium and the 
orgasm in it is not sufficiently great for the full enjoyment of 
life ; and (2.) that in which the difference is too great. That 
a difference, greater or less, between nearest neighbours is the 
condition of all life, and, indeed, of all molecular action except 
that of simple gravitation, is the teaching equally of all che- 
mistry and of all biology. The difference must not be too 
great and urgent, indeed, otherwise a rapid solution or dissolu- 
tion of the orgasm is the consequence. But neither must 16 be 
too small; for all vital, all molecular action, consists in an 
endeavour to lessen an initial difference by an exchange of 
particles ; and all molecular action, all life, ceases when assi- 
milation has been completely effected. Hence it immediately 
appears that, when the difference between an orgasm and the 
ambient medium is too small, the conditions of existence, 
though they may be favourable to the conservation of life, 
are yet unfavourable to the deployment of life. 
Now, the difference between an orgasm and the medium in 
which it exists cannot but be very small when that orgasm 
consists of the same kind of molecules as the medium in which 
it appears, and in which it has been merely individualised. 
Orgasms thus generated, therefore, we are to expect to possess 
spherical or hybernating forms, so far as mechanical pres- 
sures, modes of nutrition, and specific types permit. Now, in 
this category are obviously included all ova, seeds, spores, 
granules, and cells of all those kinds of which so many are pro- 
duced in the plastic fluids and tissues of living beings. But 
of all these, it will be admitted that they tend to assume a 
spherical form. They therefore fully verify our theory. 
-Nor is it only while they are in a hybernating state that 
ova and seeds verify our theory. When, through influences 
more or less remote, they are forced to develop themselves, 
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