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separative stage just considered; whereas 

 now we are to emphasize cell-organization, 

 or, employing a more decisive word, cell-as- 

 sociation. Moreover this word correlates cel- 

 lular Life with its highest manifestation in 

 the human form, and even beyond it, hint- 

 ing human institutions, which also rise 

 through association. All living organs of an 

 organism, and the organism itself show this 

 associated cellular Life, which we are to con- 

 sider next. 



At this point, then, enters a pivotal activity 

 of the Cellular Biocosmos, namely, the asso- 

 ciation of cells. Cellular autonomy, which we 

 have seen to be the previous stage of the cell 

 evolving from the protoplasmic life-mass, 

 evolves in its turn from its separated, individ- 

 ualistic, autonomous condition into a newly 

 organized, associated Life, in which the cel- 

 lular community becomes truly manifested 

 and explicit. Still we must not forget that 

 the cell in itself was already the implicit com- 

 munity, and showed many marks of its so- 

 called complexity in its incipient organs. 

 Thus it too manifests the inner propulsion 

 to form all its distinctive parts into an or- 

 ganic whole ; this is indeed its psychical side. 

 But the same power will seize the entire cell- 

 body and integrate it with the higher organ- 

 isms of plant and animal. Thus a multi-eel- 



