THE PARTICULAEIZED BIOCOSMOS. 



We are next to see how the Biocosmos, the 

 Order of Life, is particularized, differenti- 

 ated, specialized. What divisions or stages 

 does it now manifest? These, we may here 

 set down in advance, are regarded as three 

 Plant-life, Animal-life, and Earth-life. All 

 are distinct and are to be separately treated; 

 yet they are likewise joined together in a 

 certain sequence and form a process. 



The preceding part, which considered the 

 Cellular Biocosmos, must be regarded as the 

 immediate or elemental stage of this Order 

 of Life the primal, constitutive portion 

 made up as it is of the cell, which the three 

 kinds of Life pre-suppose. Associated cells 



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