THE MOVEMENT OF THE CELL. 



Diacosmos). The movement in both is to- 

 ward the small and smallest as constituents 

 of the physical universe. Already we have 

 noted the analogy .between the Diacosmical 

 molecule (or even the atom) and the Biocos- 

 niical cell ; each is in an ever diminishing line 

 of descent toward the infinitely minute or di- 

 vided. Both therein mirror the character of 

 the science of the time, which is so deeply sep- 

 arative and specialized, but not well synthe- 

 sized and ordered; indeed the same divisive 

 tendency is largely the character of the age 

 in all thought and activity. Ours is not a 

 great integrating epoch, such as we have seen 

 in other periods of the World's History. 

 This is no lamentation over the time, for 

 Psychology in its universal sense recognizes 

 the separative stage to be as necessary as 

 any other, to be indeed an inherent part of 

 the total process, be this little or large. In 

 the Diacosmos we saw the material divided 

 into speculative molecules, which in due time 

 were separated into atoms, which seined for 

 a while to be the final resting-place. But 

 now the atom has been disintegrated (so sci- 

 ence is saying), and is found to be made up 

 of whirling electrons, which may be compared 

 to particles of dust flying in a room when it 

 is swept, the atom being the room. Each 

 atom of a chemical element (this elenient was 



