15(5 THE BIOCOSMOS CELLULAR. 



culatory (possibly the nervous) may yet be 

 found for the deeper ordering of the present 

 vast rather chaotic menagerie of Biocosmical 

 shapes. 



This leads us to another somewhat similar 

 consideration: the Psyche of the biologist 

 himself is in a condition corresponding to the 

 foregoing unicellular stage, as revealed by 

 his works. Wonderful is his cellular indus- 

 try, but he seems unable to integrate his^vast 

 details into a complete organism; cell after 

 cell he adds, keeping up an almost infinite 

 division (a kind of intellectual mitosis, to use 

 one of his terms). We conceive the hundreds 

 of biological investigators now found in ev- 

 ery part of the globe; each one is reproduc- 

 ing by some sort of fission that original 

 thought-cell of his science till the quantity 

 of individuals overwhelm us with their chaotic 

 multiplicity, and we start to praying for a 

 deliverer : 0, for some organizer of this scien- 

 tific cell-world, some categorizer perchance 

 a Darwin even with his limited Natural Selec- 

 tion! So, we pray in tribulation of spirit; 

 but the scientist, as the report flies, does not 

 listen to prayer, does not even believe in it; 

 accordingly the outsider has to run his own 

 lines of organisation, if he feels the need of 

 them which need, as Psyche, he cannot help 

 feeling now and then. So we behold every- 



