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the other in alien wrappage, which, however, 

 as vital becomes an integral part of it. 



Thus we may trace an outline of inorganic 

 evolution antecedent to and preparatory. for 

 organic evolution. It should be stated that 

 the above exposition follows mainly the lines 

 of Lockyer, whose methods and results have 

 been sharply attacked. Doubtless his work 

 must be corrected and extended; still it seems 

 to us to be in the right direction. 



So in struggling to reach back of our Bio- 

 cosmos to its sources, we come upon the 

 chemical elements of it first, which seem 

 ready and indeed striving to unite* in the high- 

 est act of Life. But of themselves they are 

 quite powerless for such an end. It is true 

 that many scientists seek to express the vital 

 principles in terms of Chemism. But that 

 simply disintegrates and deadens the living 

 thing, leaving out its very essence, namely, 

 Life. What is the link here missing? It is 

 at this point that the ghostly intruder again 

 appears, that Psyche, who has so often trou- 

 bled the scientist, and in her spectral way 

 makes the transition through Chemism from 

 Unlife to Life. 



So the vast separation of Nature has in the 

 Biocosmos reached the much-divided realm of 

 living individuals, everyone of which has 

 within itself the round of the Psyche, 



