146 THE BIOCOSMOS CELLULAR. 



into its Hving atoms, or elemental units, in 

 a state of complete separation. Here we may 

 note that this unicellular Life is also multi- 

 cellular that is, indefinitely reproduced and 

 repeated. Each is primarily taken as an in- 

 dependent whole with its own entire round 

 of life, even if they be externally connected. 

 A string or mass of single cells is properly 

 multicellular, though not internally interre- 

 lated. 



Still we have to recall that this elemental 

 unit of Life is an organism which is a result 

 of something gone before; it is a conse- 

 quent which presupposes an antecedent; or 

 as previously set forth, it is the beginning 

 which has already begun. Thus it keeps 

 throwing back of itself its own starting-point, 

 which the scientist at once sets out to explore 

 as a new object. And so the search keeps on 

 for finding the ultimate unit of Nature, who 

 always turns out twofold, in accord with her 

 deepest character. 



The general process of the cell has been 

 given on a former page, with its central nu- 

 cleus and protoplasmic body ever dividing 

 and forming new cells. In the detailed ac : 

 counts of the cellular organs and parts, many 

 other items, such as the nucleus, the centro- 

 some, the granules, etc., have been carefully 

 studied and described by the biologist, but 



