128 THE BIOCOSMOS CELLULAR. 



something more and of deeper import: his 

 act is likewise a social act, bearing the im- 

 press of his age, of which he is more or less of 

 an utterance. Darwin must remain his su- 

 preme prototype, who formulated the deepest 

 strain of his time, with his doctrine of Evo- 

 lution. That doubleness of Nature lies in 

 both men; it is that of Physis and Psyche, 

 with their perpetual approachment, yet sep- 

 aration still. Will there ever be a final syn- 

 thesis of the twain, the ideal end of the scien- 

 tist? 



Putting the problem in another form, we 

 may ask, Will the Psyche ever get inside the 

 atom, or electron, and make it live! To some 

 such result it seems to be leading the Biocos- 

 mos in its search for the ultimate unit of Life 

 beyond the cell ; or we may call it the new cell. 

 To be sure this pursuit cannot stop with such 

 an attainment, for the electron is clearly not 

 an ultimate, it is already going to pieces in 

 spite of the herculean attempts to hold it to- 

 gether. The far subtler ether with its ethe- 

 rion is at work underneath every cosmical 

 and diacosmical form (such as electricity for 

 instance), and is calling for the new synthe- 

 sis. So we run upon the question, the last 

 for the present; Is the Psyche finally to be 

 found inside the etherion, and thus become 

 the original elemental cell of the Biocosmos ? 



