410 THE BIOCOSMOS HISTORICAL. 



their separate characteristics. And some day 

 we may have a science of Biography, as we 

 have long had a science (or philosophy) of 

 History, which in a number of ways is the 

 counterpart and complement of Biography. 



Accordingly we have to think that biological 

 Evolution is not complete till it embraces the 

 corresponding biographical Evolution which 

 evolved it as a science. Both are forms or 

 stages of that larger Life which we name the 

 Biocosmos. Biological Evolution is to set forth 

 not merely the Descent of Man (or his Ascent, 

 as it is sometimes put), but it is also to bring 

 before us the descended Man, the biologist 

 himself, looking back and telling us of his 

 Descent from the beginning (perchance the 

 monera or amoeba}. His act is truly the last 

 outcome of Evolution which thus turns about 

 and takes up itself as a whole. It is true that 

 in such a case Evolution proper has evolved 

 out of itself and gone beyond into a psychical 

 sphere. The end of Evolution is to free the 

 Psyche from its immediate bond with Nature, 

 till it attains the power of self-return within 

 itself or self-consciousness, and through this to 

 become aware of how it gradually won such a 

 power. Thus the Psyche is to evolve into 

 being conscious not only of its own immediate 

 self, but also of the genesis of that self in its 

 long training with Nature (or Physis). Dar- 



