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also of Man in his attempt to construe and 

 formulate the same which gives the science 

 of Nature. It is Man who turns back upon 

 the physical world and seeks to re-order it ac- 

 cording to its own genetic principle, and then 

 to precipitate this into human speech. The 

 Biocosmos, therefore, to be complete, must 

 include not Life alone, not the Science of Life 

 alone, but likewise the Mind making this 

 Science. 



Moreover, in the sweep of total Nature, the 

 Biocosmos is but one stage, the third, which 

 has the universal characteristic of turning 

 back upon itself and thus finishing its cycle. 

 The animated world has the pervasive trait 

 that it can be stimulated to some kind of self- 

 movement, which involves the life-round of 

 taking up and giving out. The oak develops 

 the acorn, which in turn becomes the oak pro- 

 ducing the acorn; the falling leaf whirls to 

 the source whence it came, the earth, ready 

 to begin over. More pronounced are the cir- 

 cuits of the animal body nervous, circu- 

 latory, muscular. Deeply grounded is this 

 self-returning principle of the Biocosmos as 

 the third stage of Nature ; it is what the mind 

 is ultimately to see and formulate, and there- 

 by identify with itself. Its process is psych- 

 ical, must be so, else the Psyche never could 

 get it. 



