HYGIOLOGY. 



junctures, with her process self-dividing (as 

 in Chemism) and self-returning (as in Life.) 

 Chemism must be regarded as the last and 

 highest point of Unlife before passing into 

 Life, the culmination of the Inorganic on its 

 way to the Organic, verily the final phase of 

 the Diacosmos, the deepest separative stage 

 of Nature herself ere she develops into her 

 self-returning vital act. Life is a rounded 

 and complete chemical process, which is al- 

 ways disintegrating its product (as blood, 

 muscle, organ), yet at the same time is al- 

 ways re-integrating what it disintegrates, 

 ever building anew the body which it is tear- 

 ing down. Thus Life is the secret agent 

 which turns Chemism against Chemism and 

 makes the same undo its undoing, or negate 

 its negative which process thus becomes the 

 positive and vital. It is no wonder that the 

 negative Eighteenth Century developed 

 Chemistry, first really elevating it into a 

 science, which was also the favorite intellec- 

 tual pursuit of so many French revolution- 

 ists the Spirit of Man in one of its epochal 

 phases being sympathetic with the like Spirit 

 of Nature. Here again we should note the 

 characteristic fact that Life is a chemical re- 

 turn to its start, that Chemism therein is 

 cycled around upon itself, which act it can- 

 not perform alone; Chemism cannot round 



