10 THE BIOCOSMOS GENERAL INTRODUCTION. 



to get back to its origin in the Universe which 

 can only be a thought, or more adequately 

 stated, the universal psychical process of 

 mind. This point we shall unfold somewhat. 

 Nature is a part of a greater whole, yea 

 ultimately, of the greatest whole, of the very 

 All itself. And every part of Nature, or part 

 of the part, even to the least, must be a part 

 of this All. So we may grasp, in an external 

 way, the divisions of the physical world. To 

 this view we can now add the reflection that 

 every part of a Whole, in order to be such 

 part, must have the process of that Whole. 

 For instance, each member of your organism 

 -hand, arm, foot must possess the organic 

 process of the entire body; thus it is truly a 

 member. Accordingly every minutest par- 

 ticle of the universe presupposes that uni- 

 verse, and is connected with the same in the 

 unseen bond which we call the psychical. All 

 true science as universal seizes this unitary 

 principle of every manifestation of Nature, 

 and carries it up to its original source, which 

 can only be the universe. So Natural Science 

 is not to stop with knowing the particular (as 

 it often does). Nature can be known only by 

 knowing the great Whole of which it is a part, 

 and from which it gets its ultimate process. 

 This, too, must be psychical, a fact which we 

 may look. into for a little while. 



