390 THE BIOCOSMOS PARTICULARIZED. 



for all, but has to keep re-making itself every 

 day and that too with no little speed. 



Moreover the Generation of Earth-life has 

 both its inorganic and organic phases. In- 

 organically it is generated from the outside, 

 or determined by the Cosmos from which it 

 sprang; but organically we may deem it es- 

 sentially self-generated, though it depends 

 still for Life upon the diacosmical radiants- 

 heat, light, electricity. 



Still further the generative Process of 

 Earth-life is different from that of Plant and 

 Animal; it produces no young individual 

 Earths; reproduction is turned upon itself, 

 and brings forth itself perpetually renewed 

 after a season of aging or of Unlife. The 

 dual relation of the sexes does not belong to 

 the Earth as a whole, but to its constitutive 

 members in Plant-life and Animal-life. It is 

 the many millions of sexual individuals, veg- 

 etal and animal, which keep Earth-life always 

 self-begetting within itself. We may say that 

 the Moon is in a sense the child of the Earth, 

 having issued from it; but that separation 

 took place long before the birth of Earth-life, 

 or the transition from its inorganic state to 

 its organic. The Moon is supposed to be 

 wholly inorganic; but as it separated from the 

 Earth so the Earth long before separated 



