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This principle of Balance operates throughout the universe. The growth of plant and animal forms is balanced by their decay, their life by their death. If this principle failed to operate for only fifty years, the seas would be packed with fish to such an extent that their waters would spill over and flood most lands, submerging their cities.

-- Notebooks Category 20: What Is Philosophy? > Chapter 3 : Its Requirements > # 319