Nor does it alter the fact that very few people surpass their parents nowadays, and attain any individuality beyond them.

Most men are half-born slaves: the little soul they are born with just atrophies, and merely the organism emanates, the new self, the new soul, the new swells into manhood, like big potatoes.
So there we are.

But considering man at his best, he is at the start faced with the great problem.

At the very start he has to undertake his tripartite being, the mother within him, the father within him, and the Holy Ghost, the self which he is supposed to consummate, and which mostly he doesn't.
And there it is, a hard physiological fact.

At the moment of our conception, the father nucleus fuses with the mother nucleus, and the wonder emanates, the new self, the new soul, the new individual cell.
But in the new individual cell the father-germ and the mother-germ do not relinquish their identity.