THE MOVEMENT OF THE CELL, 



quite identical movements of the two grand 

 divisions of Nature toward a real point of 

 identity which, if never quite to be reached 

 is certainly to be more and more approached. 

 The biological aspiration is apparently to 

 behold the initial point or germ-plasm whence 

 fork the Organic and Inorganic from a com- 

 mon center, to discover the bifurcation of the 

 Diacosmos and Biocosmos, each of which then 

 evolves independently on its own road after 

 its own fashion. In a somewhat similar way 

 the plant and the animal have been carried 

 back to an organic cell from which they both 

 diverge and evolve along separate paths. 

 Such a function is usually assigned to the 

 Protista, which, however, must still be car- 

 ried up to some remoter source or sources, 

 even to the ultimate unit not merely of Life 

 (which is the cell), but of Unlife and Life of 

 all Nature. Psyche has already that unit 

 ideally in herself, and is at present emphatic- 

 ally bent on finding it in Physis. 



So our cellular Biocosmos may be deemed 

 the scene of the great scientific struggle of 

 the time, displaying the ideal pursuit of the 

 scientist as well as the strength and also the 

 limitation of his consciousness. For the Ego 

 of the biologist is formed by his work; while 

 evolving the cell, he is equally evolving the 

 evolver, namely, himself. But he is doing 



