Note 68 — THE INDIVIDUAL ORGANISM WITH REGARD TO FORM AND METABOLISM (continued 3)

Reciprocal harmony may be reduced in some cases to the given proportions of one original harmonious system, from which the single constituents of the complicated system, showing reciprocal harmony, are derived. Then we have only an instance of “harmony of constellation” (see p. 109). But reciprocal harmony seems to become a problem itself, if it occurs in restitutions starting from quite a typical point, selected by the experimenter. It will be a problem of future research to give an exact formula of what happens here. Reciprocal harmony also occurs in regeneration proper. It is known that the formation of the regenerative bud and the differentiation of this bud follow each other. As the bud is composed of different elementary systems, it follows that these different systems, of which every single one is harmonious, also have to work in reciprocity to each other, in order that one whole proportionate formation may result.