Yet we know in biology that the reproduction of molecular vegetable bodies is by scission with alternate sporation, and that of molecular animals is by scission with alternate conjunction.
The first great scission that had to be effected was that of the two kingdoms, vegetable and animal, which thus happen to be mutually complementary, without, however, any agreement having been made between them.
As we see it to-day, at the point to which it was brought by a scissionof the mutually complementary tendencies which it contained within itself, life is entirely dependent on the chlorophyllian function of the plant.
The scission was not yet irremediable between the two terms.
Now, his clumsiness had suggested the use of the scissors, and the victim not only discovered the scission in his coat, but caught the thief with the implements of his art upon him.
As he never encountered an iron bar whose scission baffled him, so there never was a fire-eating Methodist to whose ministrations he would not turn a repentant ear.
Thus their self-alienation has deepened into absolute self-contradiction, the complete scission of the soul.
The immediate Returners, those who went straight home, without internal scission or external trouble; unimportant they are in this peaceful aspect though they were formerly heroes in the war.
He, therefore, has the scission in himself, he longs to leave and be restored out of this realm of mere nature.
Pylos allows the simple state of faith, the world unfallen; Sparta has in it the deep scission of the soul, which, however, is at present healed after many wanderings and struggles.
It manifestly carries the Trojan scission into Olympus and drives out in disgrace the Trojan deities.
He will go directly home, and thus he has to leave the others behind; the scission is not in him as in them; he can be restored, in fact he restores himself.
