DIVISION'S OF THE BIOCOSMOS. 



mos, its very consciousness, at least in its 

 present attainment. Doubtless it will evolve 

 to a new stage in the future. 



VIII. And now before setting out on our 

 special journey, we have to peer over the com- 

 ing territory in a little map on which we may 

 mark down the main stages. As the Biocos- 

 mos signifies the Order of Life, so we may 

 well ask for a glimpse of this ordering of the 

 subject at the start. Already we have noted 

 the place of the Bicosmos in the total Order 

 of Nature, of which it is the third supreme 

 member or constituent, along with the Cos- 

 mos and Diocosmos. But within itself, as here 

 set forth, it shows three leading divisions, 

 which form its process as a whole and which 

 must be conceived ultimately as psychical. 

 These may be in general designated briefly as 

 follows : 



(I.) THE CELLULAB BIOCOSMOS: which, in 

 the present state of biological science we have 

 put first, as the cell is deemed the primal uni- 

 tary basis of Life. The immediate or ele- 

 mental stage of the total Biocosmos is, accord- 

 ingly, the cellular; in the language of recent 

 biology, the cell is the ultimate unit of organic 

 Life. Still the cell has its own inner process 

 of separation and restoration, as we have al- 

 ready seen, even if the biologist is seeking 

 among its various divisions for something 



