160 THE BIOCOSMOS CELLULAR. 



the Psyche, and are to get their ultimate 

 order from Psychology, as the universal 

 science. 



It should be added here that there are 

 scientists who find in the human body numer- 

 ous rudimentary organs which await their full 

 development. From this point of view man's 

 organism has not yet completely evolved 

 itself, or realized its possibilities. This is 

 the opinion of the eminent anatomist Gegen- 

 baur. The so-called transcended parts, once 

 useful but now useless and even dangerous 

 (like the os coccygis] are far outstripped by 

 the unevolved parts, which are yet to con- 

 stitute the perfect Human Form. This 

 prophecy, however, seems not at present to 

 be marching toward fulfilment. 



But the Cellular Biocosmos falls into con- 

 flict with itself, the organism in its associated 

 cell-life has its strife and war, and hence suf- 

 fers (Pathology, literally the science of suf- 

 fering). Cells indeed become pathogenic, to 

 use the scientific term. Whereof a little may 

 now be said. 



II. PATHOLOGY. 



The cell has its negative side, its separative 

 ''destructive phase, the conception of which 

 has in recent times given an entirely new 

 turn to the science of medicine, or better, the 



