Let us remember that a few original intimate differences exist in our
harmonious systems: the main directions of the intimate protoplasmic
structure including polarity and bilaterality. There are therefore
three times two specified poles in each of these systems, at least in
bilateral organisms, but no other differences are present in them.
A few very simple cases of harmonious differentiation might indeed
be understood on the theory of a disintegrating chemical compound
in connection with these few differences. Imagine that the original
compound, of the quantity *a*, is disintegrated to the amount of
*a*_1; from *a*_1 are formed the two more simple compounds, *b*
and *c*, both of them in definite quantities; then we have the three
chemical individuals, *a-a*_1, *b* and *c*, as the constituents of
our harmonious system; and it now might be assumed, without any serious
difficulty, though with the introduction of some new hypotheses, that
the two poles of one of the fundamental axes of symmetry attract *b* and
*c* respectively, *a-a*_1 remaining unattracted between them. We thus
should have the three elementary constituents of the system separated
into three parts, and as they all three are of a definite quantity,
their separation would mean that the system had been divided into three
parts, *a-a*_1, *b* and *c*, also with regard to its proper form.
It is clear, that by taking away any part of the original system, by
means of operations, there would be taken away a certain amount of the
original compound; say that *a/n* is left; then, of course, the three
constituents after the partial disintegration would be *a-a_1/n*,
*b/n* and *c/n*, and so it follows that the proportionality of
localisation would really be preserved in any case.
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