150 THE BIOCO8M08 CELLULAR. 



started, this corporeal individuation of Life 

 will not stop till it reaches the topmost form 

 of Nature, rising through a long series of or- 

 ganisms, from the smallest to the largest. 



One may ask concerning the cause or source 

 of this individuation of Life. Is there no 

 other way for the evolution of the Biocosmos 

 than through the living individual? Nature 

 takes just that method why? She must, it 

 lies in the deepest necessity of her origin. 

 We notice the same separative tendency to- 

 ward individuals in the inorganic Cosmos. 

 The sky shows it in the stars, in the nebulae, 

 in the planets, in the Earth which originally 

 separated from the Sun, and became itself an 

 individual, which was to carry forward its own 

 primal division indefinitely. Here we may 

 recur to that fundamental thought from which 

 this treatise starts in the germ; Nature in 

 its total sweep is the second or separative 

 stage in the process of the All (or the Pamp- 

 sychosis). So in this case, as in every other, 

 we have to go back to the Universe to get the 

 ultimate ground of individuality, which is a 

 phase of its partition. The Biocosmical cell 

 is a living individual, which is perpetually 

 dividing itself anew, repeating itself, repro- 

 ducing itself. Why does it thus? It is re- 

 enacting the All of which it is a part, and it 

 can only be a part of the Universe but by 



