474 THE BIOCOSMOS HISTORICAL. 



the new. Aristotle is the great synthetic genius 

 who is wanted, who will unify the present 

 deeply specialized -and divided Natural 

 Science and then correlate it with the Uni- 

 verse of which Nature is but a stage or part. 

 Till such an universal organizer appears, we 

 shall have to swash about at random in the 

 ocean of particulars, with which the experi- 

 mental scientist is deluging us from every 

 direction. 



We have now briefly set forth not only Evo- 

 lution but the evolver of Evolution, yea a line 

 of such evolvers, which line is itself an Evolu- 

 tion, or a history. That is, Evolution to be 

 true to its own principle, must also evolve; 

 Biology has to be studied^ but with it the biol- 

 ogist biologizing. In him we behold the mind 

 evolving in itself and also as evolutionary in 

 doctrine. The reader is thus to appropriate 

 the Biocosmos as a whole, which embraces not 

 only the science of Life, but also the scientist, 

 who certainly ought not to be left out of his 

 own work. To be sure we here come upon 

 the Ego which itself has evolved up to the 

 point of turning back and grasping Evolution 

 which is really its own Evolution, whereof it 

 becomes conscious. 



Mind, Consciousness, Ego such is the new 

 world which has now come into view, and 

 which has been more or less implicit in the 



