270 THE BIOC08MOS PARTICULARIZED. 



(in its periodic food-taking and otherwise), 

 Matter (in its various aliments). So too the 

 Cosmos is being broken up into self-active 

 units in the Animal. 



The Animal feeds on the Plant and also on 

 the Animal ; that is, its food is not immediate 

 and elemental like that of the Plant, but medi- 

 ated, already organized. On the whole the 

 Plant has to go in advance and prepare a 

 green world for the Animal, which assimilates 

 what has been already assimilated. The Ani- 

 mal is thus a second life which depends on 

 a first life for its complete appropriation of 

 the Earth and Sun, of the Cosmos and Dia- 

 cosmos. Still the Animal cannot do with- 

 out the immediate elements, such as air and 

 water, nor dispense with the immediate ra- 

 diants, as heat, light and electricity; that is, 

 it has also a vegetal character; in fact, the 

 Animal is all three phases of Nature Matter 

 (as being gravitative) and Plant as well as 

 Animal, which last is the purposive outcome 

 or perchance the aspiration of the other two. 



Another distinction lies in the realm of 

 sleep. The Plant is always dormant, even 

 it has stages of dormancy. It cannot fully 

 separate itself from its immediate relation 

 to Nature, especially to the Earth, and be- 

 come awake. Of course, when the sun with- 

 draws, it may take a period of rest or have 



