ITS MEANING AND DIVISIONS. 



dualistic as Nature herself in whose work- 

 shop he is employed; he cannot help partak- 

 ing of the character of the element in which 

 he works; he has to become what he does. 



But returning from our little excursion, 

 we have still to mark out in advance the kinds 

 of Life Plant, Animal, Earth and fore- 

 shadow their process. For they Life-forms 

 we may briefly call them belong together 

 and constitute one great movement of the 

 Biocosmos, the second sweep of it, here des- 

 ignated as particularized. Only the more 

 obvious distinctions can be summarized for 

 an outlook over the whole field; details will 

 be added later. 



(I). PLANT-LIFE. This is in the most im- 

 mediate relation to the total Life of the 

 Earth, unseparated from the terrestrial 

 mother is the Plant, a suckling continuous 

 and unable to walk. Not self-centered, each 

 organ largely autonomous, yet with a com- 

 mon center which lies outside of them ; hence, 

 too, no sensation or very little, and no self- 

 movement or very little. 



(II). ANIMAL-LIFE. This is organically 

 self-centered, the organs are subordinated to 

 a center which is within them, and which is 

 itself an organ (the brain). Hence, self- 

 movement or locomotion, in which the organ- 

 ism breaks for a while its connection with 



