Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Goethe , Johann Wolfgang von and Naydler , Jeremy (1996-01), Goethe On Science: An Anthology of Goethe's Scientific Writings, Retrieved on 2012-05-29Source Material [books.google.com]
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29 MAY 2012
Nature Works in Increments
Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap. For example she could not produce a horse if it were not preceded by all the other animals on which she ascends to the horse's structure as if on the rungs of a ladder. Thus every one thing exists for the sake of all things and all for the sake of one; for the one is of course the all as well. Nature, despite her seeming diversity, is always a unity, a whole; and thus, when she manifests herself in a...All living things rely on the chain of all other living things before them.