POLS 121 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: William Crookes, Jiva, Plastid
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Rated individuals of complexity: before entering the details of our particular topic, we must understand another theory of evolution, just as a generalisation. It is the well-recognized scientific phenomenon of graded organisms, or species, becoming increasingly complex as they ascend the evolutionary ladder while still retaining their own identity, even as they enter a higher organism as part of it. Every entity inside a fonn is an embodied existence. The creation in the east is familiar, each life being recognized as a fragment of the universal life which forms the shapes adapted to its unfolding forces for itself through countless phases. Every such life is technically called by the hindu a jiva, or a jivatma, a living. Being, or a living self, and is seen as the cause of evolution through slow and gradual changes creating the organs needed for its latent forces or functions from the surrounding matter to function more and more fully.
