But further, because the basic determination is quantitative, the exclusive elective affinity continues also into these opposite neutralities, and this continuity is not just an external comparative connection of the different ratios of the neutralities but the neutrality, as such, has an element of separability in it, for it is as self subsisting somethings that the moments from whose union it has come to be enter into connection with one or the other of the opposite series: they enter into the connection indifferently, even though they combine in different specific determinate amounts.