'338 THE BIOCOSMOS PARTICULARIZED. 



The generative division of the Animal is 

 most commonly crosswise, but it may be 

 lengthwise or even oblique. Still another 

 form of uni-parental Generation is that of 

 budding, which again recalls the Plant. In 

 the lowest animal organism, each part has 

 the tendency to produce the whole body under 

 certain conditions. There is as yet no decid- 

 ed centralization in a head and brain, even if 

 there be a limited self -movement. Still these 

 living sacs or globules often dart out into 

 something like trunk and extremities; they 

 seem to improvise the organs of a higher ani- 

 mal, according to the need, and then take the 

 same back into the common receptacle. In- 

 deed the Amoeba would appear to be a poten- 

 tial man, the plastic possibility of the fixed 

 organs, which evolution is to make persistent 

 in the lapse of the ages. Still we have again 

 to ask who is the artist working in this so 

 formable body of the microbe, and shaping 

 it evidently to an end? Already we have 

 noted it struggling in fitful outreaches toward 

 a higher organization wherein may be felt 

 again Nature's deepest aspiration to advance, 

 even to advance out of itself. 



In this field of single Generation or asexual 

 reproduction are many grades in which may 

 be observed the approach toward the com- 

 plete sexualization of reproduction, Two 



