i4o6 LIFE : OUTLINES OF GENERAL BIOLOGY 



attempts to co-ordinate this literature; while the mass of it is, of 

 course, in the innumerable records of geographical and anthropolog- 

 ical travellers, of descriptive economists also, like Arthur Young, 

 Cobbett, and many more; not to speak of many other sources, even 

 from novel, drama, and poetry to the sacred books of the world. 

 The above outline has, however, primarily arisen, as a matter of 

 theory, from the attempt to clarify and co-ordinate the sociology 

 of the Le Play school with the progress arising from or since Comte. 

 Yet also as a matter of practice, from actual Surveys of many cities, 

 and sometimes of their regions, and the attempt towards putting 

 Reports for their town-planning and improvement on a more 

 orderly and comprehensive corresponding basis. Yet as town- 

 planning has fundamentally arisen from the need of hygiene and 

 education, and from the work of building and gardening, and all 

 these as fundamental occupations of biotechnic and bio-social 

 character, this whole way of study and presentment goes back to 

 Biology: and this as generalising our nature-studies. And as town- 

 planning is but the endeavour towards amending and renewing the 

 human hive, its experience affords a very suggestive line of bio- 

 logical and evolutionary inquiry, as well as of application. Indeed, 

 thus to amplify our outline Life-diagram far beyond present hmits 

 would be easy: suffice it here to point out a single illustrative detail. 

 The geographic Atlas can at utmost give but a few town-plans, and 

 Baedeker and other guide-books a few more. But the town-planner 

 specialises on these, into details previously unmapped, even by 

 Ordnance Survey; since sometimes knowing his city to the very 

 quality of house by house, and their main types of occupants too: 

 while henceforth to dot in the line between work-Place and folk- 

 Place on our diagram, i.e. to separate factories and homes, so 

 messed up together by the industrial age, and to the grievous 

 deterioration of them both — is technically known as the "Zoning", 

 of recent years in progress. What is this but human hive-building ? 



Further Possible Developments of Life-Schema. — What 

 now for more general use, yet towards fuUer specialism also, and 

 over these whole nine fields? Note in square of Folk, the two sexes, 



