THE CONCEPT OF INDIVIDUALITY 
The greatest difficulty the dynamic philosophy encounters is 
that involved in accounting for individuality. If all energy is 
bound together in one universe, all being parts of the whole and the 
whole felt or implicate in every part, how does the part become 
discrete? The reply is simply that creation is the introduction 
of mode (diversity, heterogeneity), and so far as our universe is 
concerned this diversity is primary. Given rhythmical variation 
and it can be conceived (from physical analogies which we may 
accept as valid) that two centers of activity may impinge upon 
one another in an infinity of ways whose one limit is identity and 
whose other limit is opposition. The results of such interference 
will conceivably vary also through an infinity and these resultants 
will be modes of activity differing from either of the primary 
energic modes. 
When a certain number of energic centers or factors are brought, 
after successive trials and selections, into certain mutually har- 
monious phases, these may become bound into a syntheticum or 
inferior organism which realizes our concept of individual. Let 
us suppose, for example, a more or less uniform stroma or energic 
field within which are playing a variety of forms of energy. This, 
let us say, is the plastic magma of a granite. Now certain of 
these forces become correlated by virtue of coherencies in mode 
and there arises a crystal of feldspar, i.e., a certain definite aggre- 
gate of activities expressing themselves as properties to our 
senses via our scientific apparatus. The energy has become less 
facile, and has become compounded into a more permanent form. 
There were reasons for the tendency for this particular appearance 
in the total formula of the energy in the magma, and not one 
but many crystals were formed; there was a sort of feldspathic 
epidemic. Now the newly formed units or freshly crystallized 
individuals exert their reactionary energy on the magma and tend 
to absorb all of the appropriate forms of energy to themselves. 
The crystals grow. At the same time they negatively tend to 
polarize the residual energy in the magma and new units of syn- 
thesized energy appear. The new syntheticum may be horn- 
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