76 THE BIOCOSMOS PRELIMINARY. 



The result is that a careful examinatioD of 

 the scientific mind of today, which holds to 

 Evolution, will find a lurking unconscious be- 

 lief in Abiogenesis, notwithstanding the con- 

 scious denial. Undoubtedly in plant and ani- 

 mal as individuals all life comes from life, 

 passes from the living parent to the living 

 offspring. But the third great form of life, 

 besides that of Plant and Animal, Earth- 

 life we may call it, has a decided tendency to 

 transcend this narrow vital cycle from 

 individual to individual, and to whelm into 

 Life's limited round the quite boundless 

 realm of Unlife to transmute the non-vital 

 element of its being into the vital. The scien- 

 cies of Plant and Animal (Botany and Zool- 

 ogy), cling to the Life individual as their 

 theme, wherein matter is already organized. 

 But how, whence did they (Plant and Ani- 

 mal) get organized! The life-principle is 

 taken for granted in this single bit of earth 

 called a living thing, and its process set forth 

 in detail by the science of Biology; still back 

 of this process works another process, with 

 the transformation of its inorganic side into 

 its organic. Most scientists agree that this 

 had to take place once, according to Evolu- 

 tion; but it is probably taking place all the 

 time. Every living thing has to die, has to 

 go back to the beginning and be dipped again 



