134 THE BIOCOSMOS CELLULAR. 



other terms, the Particular is not the Uni- 

 versal. And still scrutator will and must con- 

 tinue his scrutiny of the Inscrutible. As nat- 

 uralist he is inherently and necessarily teleol- 

 ogic; if he should ever attain the end of his 

 investigation, his calling would be gone. 



Accordingly, in this ceaseless ever-recur- 

 rent pursuit, he is in the profoundest har- 

 mony with Nature herself. For she is also 

 just this pursuit of an end by her 

 unattainable, that is, when she once reaches 

 it, she has passed out of herself into another 

 sphere. She is the infinite longing or aspir- 

 ation for the beyond, which characteristic ex- 

 presses itself in the endless series or the 

 unexpressed or indeed inexpressible. Nature, 

 therefore, cannot utter herself, or rather her 

 utterance is the striving for utterance, like 

 the song of a bird or perchance the famous 

 music of the spheres. Ever approaching the 

 goal, she cannot quite touch it and remain 

 herself. As Nature, so the Naturalist; his 

 consciousness becomes a part of what he 

 works in, despite itself; his Psyche goes back 

 and assimilates itself to that of Physis 

 which fact is verily its worth and glory. The 

 Ego of the scientist is undoubtedly self-re- 

 turning or self-conscious, like every other 

 Ego ; still it uses this power in its own way : 

 to return upon Nature from which it has 



