406 THE BIOCOSMOS HISTORICAL. 



hit ion, by which the living universe was seen 

 to be governed by a single principle. The 

 two English lawmakers of science have, ac- 

 cordingly, ordered their respective territories 

 of Nature, having done this not merely for 

 their own people, but for the rest of mankind. 

 In like manner, we may be permitted to think, 

 England has elaborated a constitution with 

 form of government which seems to have somo 

 attribute of universality for Europe, since 

 nearly all European nations have adopted it 

 more or less closely, as the one fundamental 

 law of the State. The two English scientists 

 we may, therefore, connect on one interior 

 line, with the dominant institutional conscious- 

 ness of their people. 



The seventeenth century, that of Newton, 

 had to put under law all the diverse and re- 

 calcitrant pieces of matter in the physical 

 universe the first subjection, we may deem 

 it, of Nature's individuality, which had been 

 let loose along with man's, from the clerical 

 sway, in the Eenaissance. The free movements 

 of natural bodies must be shown to be not 

 capricious or accidental, but obedient to legal 

 control. This was peculiarly the work of New- 

 ton who may be well called the Lawgiver of 

 the Cosmos. (See our Cosmos and Diacos- 

 mos, pp. 170, 178, etc.) 



On the other hand the nineteenth century, 



