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33still progressing towards perfection. This striving for, the ideal is love's movement towards beauty which, according to Avicenna, is identical with perfection. Beneath the visible evolution of forms is the force of love which actualises all striving, movement, progress. Things are so constituted that they hate non-existence, and love the joy of individuality in various forms. The indeterminate matter, dead in itself, assumes or more properly, is made to assume by the inner force of love, various forms, and rises higher and higher in the scale of beauty. The operation of this ultimate force, in the physical plane, can thus be indicated: 1. Inanimate objects are combinations of form, matter and quality. Owing to the working of this mysterious Power, quality sticks to its subject or substance; and form embraces indeterminate matter force of love, rises from which, impelled by the mighty force of love, rises from form to form. 2. The tendency of the force of love is to centralise itself. In the vegetable kingdom it attains a higher degree of unity or centralisation; though the soul still lacks that unity of action which it attains afterwards. The processes of the vegetative soul are:- (a) Assimilation. (b) Growth. (c) Reproduction. These processes, however, are nothing more than so many manifestations of love. Assimilation indi-
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