XXIII. Where is Man as a Thinking and Remembering Being?

He enters however, as a Remembering being, into community with something which, though not physical, translates the physical into processes, into proceedings—namely with the Rhythmic processes in Nature and in human life. In Nature, there is a rhythmic alternation of day and night, a rhythmic succession of seasons, and so on. In Man, the breathing and the circulation of the blood proceed rhythmically; so too the alternation of sleep and waking, and so on.