THE BIOCOSMOS CELLULAR. 



upon just the categories of mind and describe 

 their character, that every man who handles 

 these basic implements of all Intelligence 

 may know what he is doing, yea, what he him- 

 self truly is. The scientist, to his and our 

 misfortune, has imbibed the strongest preju- 

 dice against this studv of his own brain-tools 



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and often uses them with astonishing awk- 

 wardness and ignorance, slashing himself 

 horribly with the keen-edged contradictory 

 concepts lurking in his own words, even to 

 the point of cutting off his own head. 



Now one of these subtle categories of 

 Thought ensconced in human language and 

 transmitted down the ages, is just this voc- 

 able, the Beginning (or perchance the Becom- 

 ing.} And in order to catch the whole sweep 

 of it we must add its negative counterpart, 

 the Ceasing both then will be the Beginning 

 to be and the Ceasing to be. Let any reader 

 reflect how many times a day he applies to 

 special cases these two thought-forms (called 

 here categories), and he will be on the way to 

 see what really fills his Psyche. This is his 

 mental bag stuffed with acquired or congeni- 

 tal categories, by which he measures every- 

 thing, to be sure, quite unconsciously. It 

 would seem of importance to take, at times, an 

 inventory of the whole bag (which is the spe- 

 cial work of Philosophy, or better yet, of Psy- 



