36 THE BIOCOSMOS GENERAL INTRODUCTION. 



opposites in submission to his order. Still we 

 are not to forget that the all-ruling Prospero 

 is himself a Psyche. 



Somebody may here think a question: Is 

 there a science of this Psyche as such- a 

 science of the soul (or ego) in itself! Un- 

 doubtedly, and its processes are what we must 

 see as determining Nature, yea in the su- 

 preme glance as being Nature. This is a 

 stage of the Universal Psyche, which shows 

 itself as not only determining matter for in- 

 stance but as being matter which statement 

 by the way is no denial of materiality. The 

 Psyche as individual determines its organism 

 (or Physis), but as universal it is the Physis 

 in one of its phases. Evolution manifests 

 Nature's effort to overcome its primal es- 

 trangement, and to return out of separation. 

 In a different sphere (the Cosmos) Gravita- 

 tion may be said to show the same striving to 

 return to the first unity. But when Nature 

 has transcended its dualism, then it is no 

 longer Nature, it has gone over into another 

 sphere. 



In the long-protracted struggle of Nature 

 between Physis and Psyche, which is the vic- 

 tor? And what is the victory? 



