palingenesis

In the Entoprocta these can be easily made out, but in the Ectoprocta it is not always so distinct; in the forms where the zoœcium is elongated we seem to have the primitive disposition, in the flattened ones the tergal surface is increased in extent; palingenesis is to be seen in the Ectoprocta, cœnogenesis in the Entoprocta.

This process of regeneration of magma has been called palingenesis by Sederholm, who ascribes to it many of the Archæan granite and granodiorite masses of Fennoscandia.

To appear again as identically the same, would require the palingenesis of Plato, that is, the recommencement of all things, so as to have the same series of causes and effects from the very beginning; but this creed implies the finality of God's power in the phenomenal universe, and Plato never thought that.

For one of these, Johann Jakob Wagner, who had been misunderstood and was almost forgotten, a palingenesis had already begun.