Parallel Paths: a Study in Biology, Ethics, And Art
Parallel Paths: a Study in Biology, Ethics, And Art
Rolleston Thomas William
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But to say that they would never have existed but for this special form of protoplasm is to say that they were created by it out of nothing. And, no doubt, one can say that, one can say anything ; but one cannot think it I do not see how to represent the matter to our thought except by supposing that every stage in LAW, FREE WILL, PERSONALITY 187 physical evolution is accompanied by what has been called 'involution/ a drawing in, from the potenti- alities of Being, of powers and faculties of li...ving for which the opportunity to become actual had ripened. An image may make clearer what I mean, and I offer it only for this purpose, well knowing that " the best in this kind are but shadows." Suppose that a man were enclosed in a sheath composed of metal having certain peculiar properties : it is opaque when cold, but when heated it becomes transparent, and the hotter it is the more transparent it grows. Such a substance might easily exist, at any rate it is en- tirely conceivable. We must assume in addition that the heat is not such as to be injurious to the occu- pant.
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