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Psychology of the laboratory, which is to wit- 

 ness the internal procedure of Psyche shown 

 in the external phenomena of Physis. But of 

 course this Physio-psychology cannot be 

 deemed the true Psychology, but simply pre- 

 paratory. Still it has its significant place as 

 the counterpart and necessary concomitant of 

 Biology, which, as at present carried on, is 

 quite too much inclined to leave it out and 

 to treat the vital process as chemical or even 

 electrical, that is, as diacosmical. The uni- 

 tary science must be bio-psychical, and has to 

 be ordered not from the side of Natural 

 Science but of Psychology. It is really the 

 Psyche which determines the Physis, though 

 in experiment, we make the Physis determine 

 or rather manifest the Psyche. 



So in our Biocosmos we shall try to keep 

 the twin deities together without neglecting 

 the part of either. Above both of them is 

 indeed a higher God, the highest, the pamp- 

 sychical Zeus we may for the occasion call 

 him, who rules not only Nature, but the total 

 Universe of which Nature is a part. Or, to 

 draw upon William Shakespeare in this myth- 

 ical adumbration, the Ariel and Caliban of 

 Life belong together in one island, and are 

 servants, yea complementary elements of the 

 one supreme ruler of their world, who isPros- 

 pero, and who keeps both these refractory 



