Note 73 — Chapter II · THE ANIMATE WORLD
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Cp. with Gassendi’s words what Lotze says in his Outlines of Psychology (§ 81): ‘At the place where, and at the moment when, the germ of an organic being is formed amid the coherent system of the physical course of nature, this fact furnishes the incitement or moving reason which induces the all-comprehending One to beget from himself, as a supplement to such physical fact, the soul belonging to this organism.’