THE BIOCOSM08 PARTICULARIZED. 



Earth-life ; hence, too, sensation, which marks 

 the unity of the organism. Food is not im- 

 mediate and elemental like the Plant's, but 

 mediated, being vegetal or animal, or both. 



(III.) EARTH-LIFE. This embraces the to- 

 tal round of the individual Life of Plant and 

 Animal, each and all, from its earliest stage 

 (Protobioticon) through its entire individu- 

 ation till its return to its original source in 

 death. It is this Earth-life which sustains 

 the Plant immediately and the Animal medi- 

 ately; both come from it in different ways, 

 move through it on different lines, and are 

 taken back to it for a new individuation. Such 

 is the comprehensive cycle of Earth-life, 

 which on the one hand individuates itself 

 into Plant-life and Animal-life, but on the 

 other hand is an individual also, with its own 

 round of Life in birth, bloom and cessation. 



In this short abstract peers forth the pro- 

 cess of the three great Life-forms, we hope, 

 or at least the suggestion that there is such 

 a process. The Earth-individual is the living 

 fountain of all individuated Life on the plan- 

 et; every Form that is alive points back to 

 this creative prototype of itself; the little 

 microbe as well as the huge elephant is a part 

 or member of the Earth-life, and as such 

 has the essential process of the whole. That 

 is, every living individual pre-snpposes its 



