The bachelor woman is an interesting illustration of Spencer's law of the inverse relation of individuation and genesis.
The remorse of conscience from which he suffers proceeds in part from an obscure perception that the principle of individuation is illusory.
The egoist is so deluded by the principle of individuation that he supposes an absolute cleft between his own person and all others.
Hence, throughout the whole realm of life, a balancing between individuation and association.
Matter divides actually what was but potentially manifold; and, in this sense, individuationis in part the work of matter, in part the result of life's own inclination.
For Aristotle the principle of individuation was matter and form (vid.
Another question in connexion with individuation has derived at least an historical interest from the notable controversy to which it gave rise in the seventeenth century between Clarke and Leibniz.
Those various questions on the individuation of accidents will be better understood from a subsequent exposition of the scholastic doctrine on accidents (Ch.
And it seems to be confirmed by the consideration that the intrinsic principle of individuation is nothing, or adds nothing, really distinct from the specific essence itself.
It is, therefore, the material principle that not merely reveals, but also constitutes, the individuation of such corporeal forms or essences.
And finally, the individual composite substance has its individuation from these two intrinsic principles thus individually united.
And this is the view held by most other scholastics in regard to the individuation of accidents generally: that these, like substances, are individuated by their own total positive reality.
We have already examined the relation between the individual and the universal, between first and second substances, in connexion with the doctrine of Individuation (31-3).
The role of quantity in the Thomistic theory of individuation suggests the question: How are accidents themselves individuated?
It is, therefore, to some extent impossible to achieve individuation by means of conscious intention; for conscious intention leads to a conscious attitude, which excludes everything that "does not suit.
The development of the contrary function that was hitherto unconscious, leads to individuation beyond the type, and thereby to a new relation to the world and mind.
How is the ratio between individuation and genesis established in each case?
The proportion between individuation and genesis remains the same: both are increased by the increase of the common stock of materials.
Including under individuation all those processes completing and maintaining individual life, and under genesis all those aiding the formation and perfecting of new individuals, the two are necessarily antagonistic.
It is scarcely necessary to emphasise that a highly important, and, indeed, essential aspect of this greater individuation is a higher survival value.
The survival-value of individuationis greater than the survival-value of rapid multiplication.
This, of course, is an example of Spencer's great generalisation as to the antagonism or inverse ratio between individuation and genesis.
The increasing necessity and demand for individuationis effecting that which Malthus desired.
Our life and moral force is his, the reflection and manifestation of his being, individuation of the infinite reason which is everywhere present in the finite.
Man as moral being is but an individuation of humanity, just as, again, as religious being he is but an individuation of God.
With the ascent in power, the intensity of individuation keeps even pace; and from this we may explain all the characteristic distinctions between this class and that of the vermes.
Nor does the form of polarity, which has accompanied the law of individuation up its whole ascent, desert it here.
Thus is preserved in him that normal proportion between Individuation and Perpetuation which Herbert Spencer describes as existing in inverse ratio to one another.
Now for the first time relieved of the Life-tax upon her resources, her powers are released from bond, and become more fully available for individuation and personal activity.
Which is because individuation beyond the normal can only be achieved by drawing upon the vital potential of offspring.
Herbert Spencer held that Genesis (or reproductive power) andIndividuation (or Self-development) exist in inverse ratio.
Gersonides devotes an entire book of his "Milhamot Adonai" to this problem, but he defends individuation of the acquired intellect as such and thus saves personal immortality.
Individuation is merely an appearance, born of Space and Time; the latter being nothing else than the forms under which the external world necessarily manifests itself to me, conditioned as they are by my brain's faculty of perception.
But individuation depends almost entirely on the development and specialisation of the nervous system, through which alone all advance in instinct, emotion, and intellect is rendered possible.
Here, as in the case of Professor Metchnikoff, and in many other cases of atheism, it seems to me that nothing but an inadequate understanding of individuation bars the way to at least the intellectual recognition of the true God.
Progress shows us that perfect individuation joined to the greatest mutual dependence will be reached in the future of the race.
Any other definition is inconsistent with the theory of evolution, according to which that individuation which is the first condition of the struggle for existence, is nevertheless but the expression of all previously existing oppositions.
As to the second, it must be maintained that the principle of individuation is dimensive quantity.
And therefore dimensive quantity itself is a particular principle of individuation in forms of this kind, namely, inasmuch as forms numerically distinct are in different parts of the matter.
And here the individuation consists in such a particular contexture of their essential parts, and their relation one toward another, as enables them to exert the operations of the sensible or animal life.
The individuation of man appears to consist in the union of a rational soul with any convenient portion of fitly organized matter.
The influence of syphilis is, in a general sense, the same as that of tuberculosis, except that by reversing the principle of individuation it leads to greater sterility.
But even in the latter case, when the glance is lively and rapid, the same principle of individuation continues to operate.
That wherever the principle of individuation was made to interfere, the effect intended by the principle of association was in the same degree obstructed or destroyed.
In teaching the alphabet to children, the principle of individuation is indispensable; and its neglect has been productive of serious and permanent mischief.
The application of this principle of individuation in the early stages of a child's learning to read, suggests the propriety also of making some preparation for his reading every new lesson in succession.
In the above example, we have seen that a single glance was sufficient to give the infant a distinct idea of the whole scene; and the reason is, that the principle of individuation had previously done its work.
By following this plan, and adopting this branch of the natural principle of individuation in such a case, two benefits would arise.
But even here, the principle of individuationmust not be lost sight of; each letter in the class must be separately learned, and each class must be familiar, before another is taught.
