284 THE BIOCOSMOS PARTICULARIZED. 



To be sure, there is a long line of these or- 

 ganic Forms of the Animal from the micro- 

 scopic unicellular blob of plasm, up to the di- 

 versely associated multicellular Organism. 

 Still each of these Forms has its inner organ- 

 ization, even if at first largely implicit, till at 

 last animal Form seems to have become fully 

 explicit in man, and to have quite exhausted 

 its trans-shaping power (see preceding pp. 39- 

 41). The plastic possibilities of the original 

 Life-stuff have been realized to their highest 

 Form, it would seem, unless man himself can 

 take Nature in hand and give to her a new 

 lease of formative power. Hitherto she has 

 simply evolved for many millions of years her 

 own line of organisms in Plant and Animal, 

 according to her own instinct. Or we may 

 conceive that the sculptor of the long gallery 

 of animals, who is none other than Psyche, 

 finds no longer her plastic material adequate 

 to her needs, and must transform the very 

 Life-stuff furnished by Nature. Whispers 

 concerning something of this sort are already 

 in the air. 



It is declared that invisible Life in general 

 is greater quantitatively than visible, and that 

 Forms of the unseen Animal outbulk the seen. 

 Moreover this world of animated Forms is in 

 a perpetual war with itself, the unicellular 

 specially with the multicellular and organized. 



