THE BIOCOSM08 PARTICULARIZED. 



with their varied interdependence and ad- 

 justment form the living plant and animal 

 as we see them, and the earth, too, in so far 

 as this is alive. Thus we think the Biocos- 

 nios differentiating itself along three main 

 lines; or better, unfolding itself into three 

 fundamental Life-forms, which, however, 

 round themselves out into one movement 

 whose theme is what we here call the Partic- 

 ularized Biocosmos. 



Nor should we fail to note that this is the 

 second stage of the Biocosmical domain that 

 of separation, particularity, division. It is 

 true that the cell may be a separated, yea, an 

 isolated object, as seen under the all-dividing, 

 separative microscope. It is as it were the 

 immediate living atom, which has an ultimate 

 sameness, but which is to combine or asso- 

 ciate with itself in producing the varied Life- 

 forms. We behold again the march from an 

 essential identity to a wide diversity which 

 is the unfolding of the vital Order. To be 

 sure we have seen that this atomic cell is re- 

 morsely hunted down by the biologist of the 

 present time with his sharp-sighted weapon, 

 so that the cell shrinks to the cellule, to the 

 granule, perchance to the gemmule, which 

 may for the nonce be taken as the universal 

 cell, cell of all cells, prototype and an archi- 

 tect of the rest. Thus the cell seems to be 



