144 THE BIOCOSMOS CELLULAR. 



quantity, as is supposed. At a given stage it 

 would seem that the Earth produced its full 

 quota of life-stuff (Protobioticon), which it 

 has kept supplied from that time on, such 

 being all that it could do in this line. When 

 our globe broke through the previous Unlife 

 into Life, must be regarded as a chief act in 

 its evolutionary drama. When long ages aft- 

 erward Life broke through into Self-con- 

 sciousness, was also a chief act in that same 

 evolutionary drama; between which two acts 

 lies our Biocosmos; where, when and into 

 what Self-consciousness is to break through, 

 belongs to the future, and will be another 

 great act, possibly the greatest, of our ter- 

 restrial evolution. So we may put together 

 some of the huge steps of our planet's jour- 

 ney; such a step we are now trying to grasp 

 in the elemental life-stuff. 



The cellular organism which, in its smallest 

 form is already very complex and composite, 

 presupposes some sort of organic material 

 for its use. And we should not forget that 

 this stage is the Psyche getting inside the 

 Physis and starting its internal control of 

 matter. And its method seems to be individ- 

 uation, the protoplasmic mass is turning to 

 living units, however minute these may be. 

 And in one way or other this is peculiarly 

 the work of the active Psyche (the Psycho- 



