Butnosoonerhastheedifice, rearedwithsuchexactelaboration, attainedcompleteness, , theplantwithersanddisappearsfromview, leavingbehindmoreorfewerapparentlyinertandsimplebodies, justlikethebeanfromwhichitsprang; and, likeit, , asitwere, , -grownplant, totheunfoldingofafan,ortotherollingforthandwideningofastream; andthustoarriveattheconceptionof "development,"or "evolution." Here, aselsewhere, namesare "noiseandsmoke"; , inthiscase, thefactistheSisyphaeanprocess, inthecourseofwhich, thelivingandgrowingplantpassesfromtherelativesimplicityandlatentpotentialityoftheseedtothefullepiphanyofahighlydifferentiatedtype, thencetofallbacktosimplicityandpotentiality.
—intheanimalnolessthaninthevegetablekingdom—theprocessoflifepresentsthesameappearance[1], ; intheheavenlybodiesthatwaxandwane, goandreturntotheirplaces; intheinexorablesequenceoftheagesofman'slife; inthatsuccessiverise, apogee, andfallofdynastiesandofstateswhichisthemostprominenttopicofcivilhistory.
