ABSTRACT
The whole edifice of human conceptions has been built, ultimately, upon a single concept—that of individuality. Human life, emotional, social, political life, proceed upon the same fundamental postulate, and are concerned with the ‘ individual,’ with ‘individuals,’ and with nothing else. To the biologist, as is well known, the concept of ‘individuality’ has been the source of not a few dilemmas and difficulties. Among the Coelenterates and Worms the same organic form may at one time lead a separate existence, be an individual, and at another be a part, or organ of a larger aggregate. Individuality can be produced by means of scissors. Our ‘individuality’ is a share, a measured portion, or slice of the thing, Life. The ‘individual’ organism is merely a detached part of another organism. The inapplicability of that morality to the universe nowise excludes a ‘morality’ from the universe.
