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be inferred from the luminosity of other dis- 

 tant suns in starry space. Light, therefore, 

 illustrates the degravitation of the Diacos- 

 naos, even it is can be weighed, and separates 

 and keeps on separating from its solar source 

 to the extent of its energy. The term Dia- 

 cosmos embraces what is usually included un- 

 der Physics and Chemistry in the scientific 

 nomenclature of to-day. 



These, then, are the two stages which pre- 

 cede the Biocosmos, and with it form the total 

 process of the physical world. The Order of 

 Life (Biocosmos) is, in this view the self- 

 returning stage of Nature, in which stage the 

 latter, after its separation, is seeking to get 

 back to itself. To take an example : Heat, the 

 diacosmical radiant, falling upon a plant, has 

 its energy transmuted into the round of 

 vegetal life, which moves from the burst- 

 ing seed into root, stem, branch, flower, back 

 to seed, its starting point. Thus Heat, with 

 its radiative energy undulating outward to 

 infinity, is made to wheel about and work in a 

 cycle through a living thing. Or, using our 

 general terms, we may say that the Diacosmos 

 with its radio-activity, is transformed into a 

 self-returning circular activity through the 

 Biocosmos whch controls it to the purpose of 

 life. The same is true of Light, Electricity, 

 Chemism, of water and air in fine of the 



