152 THE BIOC08M08 CELLULAR. 



ture. Very interesting becomes the unicel- 

 lular Amoeba, simply dividing itself and re- 

 producing another cell like itself, when we 

 behold it in its farthest significance as the 

 protypal act of Life, even the Imman. Thus 

 we may contemplate the cell as the first liv- 

 ing individuation of the Universe, the primal 

 vital embodiment of the Pampsychosis. 



But it lies in the character of the cell that 

 it cannot stay merely a separate individual, 

 or a string of protozoa. It shows the bent 

 to organize itself a psychical bent, we con- 

 ceive it ; the many divided units push of them- 

 selves toward an associated unity, subordi- 

 nating them, yet preserving them in a new 

 order. This brings us to a new stage in the 

 development of the cell, in fact, its very pur- 

 pose in the Biocosmos, which it is now to 

 build, being both the builder and the built, 

 even furnishing itself as the brick of the edi- 

 fice. Or more simply conceived, each^ cell is 

 now made the unit of association which pro- 

 duces all the varied organic forms of living 

 existence. 



III. Associated Cellular Life. The pres- 

 ent sphere is usually named simply multi- 

 cellular in biological books; but the term 

 gives a wrong suggestion, merely that of a 

 multiplicity of cells, or of a cellular aggre- 

 gate. Such a conception belongs still to the 



