178 THE BIOCOSMOS CELLULAR. 



come its dualism in the unity of Life. Chem- 

 ism, as already remarked, is ever negative to 

 itself, it never fails to assail what it has pro- 

 duced as if deeply dissatisfied with itself. 

 Still it cannot overcome and control its own 

 negation, and so it calls for Life to complete 

 its insufficiency. For it is Life which in the 

 living body perpetually remakes the product 

 which it is unmaking. Thus we may conceive 

 Life as a chemical process self-reproducing 

 in its production and hence perennial. 



Next we may ask where this movement out 

 of Chemism into Life takes place. Its arena 

 must be the cell in some form, as the ultimate 

 vital unit. This brings us back to that world 

 not yet unveiled, which we have already 

 named the Pre-cellular Biocosmos. The great 

 transition from Unlif e to Life moves into the 

 evolving the cell perchance from the atom of 

 Chemism. Of course such a view is as yet 

 hypothetical; it is not based on any known 

 chemical reaction or on what may be seen 

 under the microscope. Still we may well con- 

 ceive the cell becoming gradually the mistress 

 of the atom, and directing it to her end which 

 is that of Life. The theory of Chemism de- 

 clares that the cell is composed of chemical 

 atoms, which must have been marshaled by 

 that living cellular energy already designated 

 as Psyche, who appears at just such con- 



