THE BIOCOSMOS PRELIMINARY. 



may be others which we know not of. Even 

 the mass of the Earth-ball is far greater than 

 the thin green film of Life which enwraps it 

 on the outside. Kelatively all living exist- 

 ence is but a tiny moth flitting its brief mo- 

 ment in the light and warmth of the Sun. 

 Still just this tiny moth is the purposive end 

 toward which all Nature moves through its 

 colossal magnitudes and mighty revolutions, 

 and which is its fulfilment and completion. 

 For the Biocosmos is the conclusion of Na- 

 ture, thus rounding-out the cosmical and dia- 

 cosmical stages, and evolving up to man, who 

 looks back and reproduces in thought and 

 word his own evolution. This is what we are 

 now to follow out in our exposition. 



