158 THE BIOCOSMOS CELLULAR. 



Of course we are not to forget the part of 

 Psyche in this long evolution, which is already 

 working in the cell and is, step by step, im- 

 pelling it forward into what? Into itself as 

 the completed psychical process. 



Naturalists have observed the greater suc- 

 cess in Life of those animals which associate. 

 It is noteworthy that many insects bees, 

 ants, termites (white ants) show a greater 

 power of association than some of the higher 

 vertebrates. Many lines of living animals 

 have failed in the course of the geologic ages 

 one reason among others being the lack of 

 associative ability. Herein doubtless lies the 

 chief ground of man's persistence through 

 all sorts of terrestrial changes. His evolu- 

 tion is a slender thread running through 

 many thousands of different organic shapes, 

 with an ever-rising might of association, till 

 now his body seems to have reached its limit 

 of cellular formation. That is, his shape 

 does not essentially change, while evolution 

 has gone over into his mind, which is in the 

 very hey-day of its progress. His body ap- 

 pears now static, but his soul is certainly 

 dynamic. And the line on which his physical 

 evolution seems to be moving is institutional 

 association (as already set forth in the Intro- 

 duction, pp. 50-52). 



Man is not ' the largest animal with the 



