This inversion of attitude is the reflection of the organism into itself the negation of its own

negativity of outwardly directed activity. As a natural being it combines the individuality which it

reaches in the process with its generality as disjunctive, in such a way that on the one hand it

separates from itself the first negation, the externality of the object and its own activity, on the

other hand, and as immediately identical with this negation, with this means reproduces itself Thus

the outward moving process is transformed and transposed into the first formal processes of

reproduction from its own self.

The primary moment in digestion is the immediate action of life as the power over the inorganic