THE BIOCOSM08 PRELIMINARY. 



more ultimate. And there is sometlmg more 

 ultimate, controlling it in various ways, but 

 hardy visible by the microscope. Just this 

 cell-division and on the other hand cell-organ- 

 isation reveal the work of a determining en- 

 ergy only palpable in its results. The highest 

 act of the Cellular Bicosmos is the organic as- 

 sociation of cells, which leads to the next 

 stage. 



(II.) THE PARTICULAEIZED BIOCOSMOS: 

 that is, the universal cell-life of the Biocos- 

 mos is now to be seen particularizing itself 

 into its three leading forms, Plant-life, Ani- 

 mal-life and Earth-life. Each of these falls 

 into its own special line of evolution, which 

 is still further divided into many successive 

 shapes or individuals, from low to high in 

 grade, and from first to last in time. Thus 

 the present is the vast realm of separated 

 Life, of the Biocosmos particularized down 

 to the living individual, which may be even a 

 cell, our previous starting-point. But the 

 emphasis is here upon the association of 

 cells which become organized into many 

 forms, of which the three leading ones we 

 have noted. Especially the Earth-life has a 

 long history which leads up to the self-return- 

 ing Ego wherewith a new stage of the Bio- 

 cosmos begins to be manifested. 



(III.) THE HISTORICAL BIOCOSMOS: this is 



