THE MOVEMEXT OF THE CELL. 



Still they are the kernel of the Diacosmical 

 science of today, which, as often observed, 

 is getting more speculative than philosoph- 

 ical speculation in its greatest bloom. A 

 necessity of Nature's Science is this, we say: 

 within its field it is running at full tilt towards 

 its unseen psychical origin and control its 

 destiny. 



Xow this same tendency of reaching out 

 for the infinitely small in order to get at the 

 source and soul of things, is next to be ob- 

 served in the Biocosmos. We have already 

 noted the aphorism of the early biologist that 

 all Life comes of Life (Omne drum ex vivo), 

 which we may take as a starting-point. The 

 next step is the cell when it gets fairly in- 

 trenched through the microscope in the biolo- 

 gical consciousness, whose expression is 

 found in the aphorism of Yirchow that every 

 cell arises out of a preceding cell (Omuls 

 cell ul a e celhila}. But his is not the end of 

 the ever-diminishing series. The cell under 

 the microscope becomes a large organic ob- 

 ject, too large, in fact, and therefore must be 

 biologically divided. The cell has in it float- 

 ing many protoplasmic points or granules; 

 what are they and whence and whither I They 

 have been supposed to be new cellular units, 

 the seeds of young cells capable of growth 

 and division; that is, possessed of the cell- 



