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sarily implied in every kind of evolution), but 

 not yet fully internalized in the physical ele- 

 ment, which it controls, therefore, more from 

 the outside. Thus we come anew to the chasm 

 which separates the Inorganic from the Or- 

 ganic, though we have a new line in the 

 thought-chain of their unity through their 

 similar evolution. Still their evolution re- 

 mains twofold, and will not directly evolve 

 one into the other. 



Necessarily the alert reader is bound to 

 ask, Whence comes this psychic factor, which 

 exercises such sway in both evolutions, 

 though this sway be different in each case? 

 That same subtle, yet all-dominating Psyche 

 we have seen ordering the Cosmos as well as 

 the Diacosmos, even if somewhat externally. 

 Indeed all Nature must have this psychical 

 side by virtue of its primal origination from 

 the Universe as Self. And the ultimate sci- 

 ence of Nature must be psychical for the same 

 reason; moreover our individual Psyche 

 could otherwise never come into communion 

 with her, could never understand her action 

 or penetrate her meaning. Scientific investi- 

 gation is finally the Psyche of the scientist 

 trying to sleuth the Psyche of Nature, se- 

 creted and entangled in its material body. 

 The one must recognize and indeed identify 



