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If you search among the cream-layer at the larger end of the nut, you will find, gradually separating itself from the mass, a little white lump, like the stalk of a very young mushroom. That is the ovule. In that lies the life, the 'forma formativa, of the future tree. How that life works, according to its kind, who can tell?
A something nameless, invisible, imponderable, yet seemingly omnipresent and omnipotent, retreating before them deeper and deeper, the deeper they delve: namely, the life which shapes and makes that which the old school-men called "forma formativa," which they call vital force and what not metaphors all, or rather counters to mark an unknown quantity, as if they should call it x or y.
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