480 THE BIOCOSMOS HISTORICAL. 



hood; it is indeed self -generative, still not as 

 particular like Nature, but as universal; it 

 must create itself universally along with every 

 special activity, and so be Consciousness. 



With this evolution of Consciousness we 

 have moved out of Nature into a new world 

 having a new order. Therewith we have also 

 moved into a new science, that of the Ego, or 

 of Psychology proper. The Ego as conscious 

 has the ever-present process of the Universe 

 in each of its special activities ; surely its deep- 

 est character is to universalize what it par- 

 ticularizes, or to hold in one supreme unity 

 that which it grasps separately. Thus we may 

 see that the true science of Psychology is the 

 universal science, being the science which or- 

 ganizes itself and all other knowledge self- 

 ordering and all-ordering in one. (For an ac- 

 count of Consciousness see our work on Feel- 

 ing, pp. CV-CX, of the Prolegomena; also in 

 the body of the work p. 132, etc.) 



We have now completed this survey of Na- 

 ture and its science. Its three leading stages 

 or divisions of which we took a brief forecast 

 at the start have been unfolded under the des- 

 ignations of Cosmos, Diacosmos, and Biocos- 

 mos. And Nature also has been treated as a 

 stage in the process of the Universe, reaching 

 its culmination and conclusion in Generation, 

 from which we have to make in thought the 



