296 THE BIOCOSMOS PARTICULARIZED. 



man Head which it has evolved as its ruler. 

 To be sure all Life would be thus a many- 

 headed beast, 1,700,000,000 such heads being 

 on our earth according to statistical estimate. 



The Head is, accordingly, the opposite of 

 the Extremities, which are the separated, 

 the decentered element of the animal Form, 

 and which are specially directed from the 

 brain. They have the prolonged cylindrical 

 tendency even to the fingers ' ends ; their outer 

 shape is thus like the Trunk, only more 

 lengthened and lengthening. But from the 

 drawn-out cylinder we pass to the concentra- 

 tion of the sphere, the Head, which is the em- 

 bodied center of the total body, containing the 

 central organ of the whole organism. So we 

 conceive the circuit of the animal Form in its 

 triune order Trunk, Extremities, Head- 

 suggesting outwardly the inner Process of the 

 Organism, and more remotely of the Psyche, 

 which stamps itself even upon the external 

 shape. 



The Formative Process of Animal-life, as 

 it unfolds through the individual and organ- 

 izes itself in him, we have now witnessed in its 

 outer manifestation, which is also the reality 

 and the impress of the inner type or norm. 

 The final shape, the Head, we may well deem 

 not only the topping-out of the animal world 

 but of the entire Biocosmos, in a new kind of 



