370 THE BIOCOSMOS PARTICULARIZED. 



was the Cosmos. So this individuation of the 

 Universe reaches far back, really to the 

 Pampsychosis, which is in itself the primor- 

 dial separation. But what concerns us now 

 is that this individualized Earth goes on with 

 its process till it generates the spark of Life, 

 somehow passing at a little genetic point from 

 the Inorganic into the Organic. Of course, 

 the When, the Where and the How lie as yet- 

 beyond the ken of science some say they 

 never can be known (DuBois Reymond's 

 famous ignoramus et ignoralnmus, a very 

 hazardous prophecy by the way, and indeed 

 contradictory). But what we here wish to 

 emphasize is that the Earth becomes a living 

 individual or becomes individualized and 

 vitalized even if the vital spot is very mi- 

 nute in a colossal non-vital body. But hav- 

 ing grasped this point of view as genetic, we 

 may see Mother Earth reproducing her own 

 fundamental traits in plants and animals, or 

 in the vast multitude of other individuals 

 primarily earth-born. 



Naturally the question comes up: Is this 

 Earth-individual with its Life also transitory 

 like Plant and Animal I Science on the whole 

 answers affirmatively. The Earth has also 

 its cycle of Life, even though it lasts millions 

 or hundreds of millions of years. It passes 

 through the round of birth, bloom, decay, 



