662 LIFE : OUTLINES OF GENERAL BIOLOGY 



you; and vice versa, e.g. ^ and ^. So in union, the straight line 



conventionally separating biosis above from psychosis below, 

 becomes vi/'T^ ^^^ Biopsychqsis and Psychobiosis respectively. 



Take now the example of a circle. \'iewed from within, we realist' 

 its radii and diameters, its arcs and chords to any extent ; and Wf 

 can inscribe figures to any extent also. We have thus a legitimate 

 and even necessary minor specialism, with its Euclidean proposi- 

 tions, riders, etc. Only when viewed from without, have we thi 

 concept of tangents. And as these also are a minor infinity, we ma\ 

 draw out an elaborate tangentography in the concrete, and also 

 reach a lucid tangentology in the abstract ! But when secants emerge 

 from or enter our circle, our two minor speciaHsms are at first 

 disturbed. Yet soon lucidly reunited; for their co-specialism, which 

 is the full and proper geometry of the circle, now appears. 



Return now to our notation. Though a straight line has no thick- 

 ness, it is of its very nature to show two opposite and complemental 

 sides, and these cannot be dissociated. For its changes to curvatures, 

 the mathematician as such has no need for either material forces or 

 psychic ones as explanatory. That graphs are graphs, is enough to 

 him. But the physicist, and the physiologist also, recognises forct 

 at work; as in the mathematician's muscular contractions, move- 

 ments, and pressures in drawing his curve. So equally the psycho- 

 logist recognises the psychic urge, and the reasonable purpose, 

 without which there would be no mathematician. Obviously, both 

 view-points are necessary. So, as a convenient convention for graphic 

 purposes, we here assign the upper portion of space on our diagram- 

 of life, that above the median hne, for the mechanistic process, the 

 customary physiological view, with its objectivist statement and 

 expression. And, complementally, the lower portion, below tht> 

 median line, is reserved for subjectivist presentment, i.e. of the 

 psychological aspect and view. 



In this way, then, our diagram arises. In customary physiological 

 terms, stimulus and response in the organismal world may be written 

 in words, as : 



Environment— function— organism, and Organism — function- 

 environment ; or in short as ^ lifo — Ofe. 



And correspondingly our own activites, as human (and thu- 

 social, for the individual is still folk-unit, as well as species- unit), art 

 conveniently presented at simplest as: 



Place — work — folk : Folk — work — place 

 Pwf : Fwp 



But our human life is significant to us as psychic; and we are all 



