272 THE BIOCOSMOS PARTICULARIZED. 



nection with the life-stuff, till the tie is ex- 

 ternally broken by death, though day and 

 night make some change in the Plant, since 

 the Earth-life is halved into a continual pro- 

 cess of sleeping and waking by terrestrial 

 rotation. The unborn Animal sleeps and 

 feeds plant-like; it is passing through its 

 vegetal stage, a kind of phytozoon on the 

 way to the complete bifurcation of Plant and 

 Animal, which hardly takes place before 

 weaning. Sleep is, therefore, the animal's 

 daily physical regeneration seemingly from 

 Life's protoplasmic sources; the whole course 

 of its evolution it has to re-enact every day, 

 if it is going to live. Man has to lie down 

 and embrace the bosom of his All-mother at 

 full length, becoming an infant again, yea a 

 Plant, till he touches the life-giving sources of 

 the whole vital world, we may suppose. Re- 

 born of the creative Universe daily is his liv- 

 ing cycle in each round of the Sun, with whom 

 he in his way sets and rises. Thus the act 

 of the Animal individuating itself for hun- 

 dreds of millions of years, has to be re-enacted 

 by man with every diurnal whirl of the Earth. 

 His whole line of living evolution he has to 

 re-evolve in bed, or at least recuperate, other- 

 wise he stops and goes back to the elements. 

 Significant is the fact that the Animal 

 evolves the eye, which has the power of posit- 



