292 THE BIOCOSMOS PARTICULARIZED. 



tlier development? The remorseless logic of 

 Evolution would seem to demand that all Life 

 be hurled into its seething process; man's 

 body is to continue its transformation in the 

 future as in the past. Some have thought that 

 it is already completed, having risen so far 

 from its first protoplasmic stuff ; but who is 

 going to cry halt to Evolution? 



The Trunk is, accordingly, the primal most 

 elemental part of the human Form. As the 

 Plant largely sustains the Animal, so the seat 

 of sustenance in the body is its vegetal por- 

 tion, the Trunk, which is thus the purveyor 

 for the higher activities of the brain, in due 

 obedience to the same. To be sure, the Trunk 

 with its nutritive purpose can get the upper 

 hand of the whole Organism, and subject the 

 Head, the master. But that is sickness, physi- 

 cal or moral, or both. 



Next we are to see the implicit and undivid- 

 ed doubleness of the Trunk dividing and be- 

 coming twain, indeed two sets of twains in the 

 two kinds of paired Extremities, which shoot 

 off from the Trunk like roots and branches, 

 though directed from a new center, the brain. 

 The Trunk of the Animal is the stem of the 

 tree, whose leaves are now internalized as 

 lungs, and whose roots are also inside as in- 

 testines. Even the human Trunk cannot re- 

 move itself, so vegetal is it, but has to be 



