216 UNIVERSAL EVOLUTION 



whole cosmos upon one special part of the cosmos, not 

 as it takes place in one moment, but as it has taken 

 place in a definite and continuous period up to date." 

 For the convenience of study, it is divided into two 

 parts, one physical, by which the life of the organism 

 is maintained, the other psychical, by which what is 

 called "consciousness" is produced. In reality, they 

 are both one. 



The body is a differentiated part of the whole phe- 

 nomena, and the most complex of organisms. The 

 physical phenomena are sustentation, by which devel- 

 opment and growth are produced, excretion, and pro- 

 creation. Sustentation is only the building up of the 

 tissues of the body, from the appropriate matter of the 

 environment, the process, metabolism, being the 

 chemical and mechanical motion; the aggregate pro- 

 cess, being the integration of matter, and the dissipa- 

 tion during the process of integration, of a large part of 

 the motion. The appropriate matter having become 

 specialized into the structure of the different organs, 

 the function of these organs is that part of the former 

 motion, or energy, connected with the matter of the 

 body, prior to integration, which is not dissipated in 

 the process of its evolution. 



Integration always occurs during a change, from a 

 diffused to a less diffused condition of matter. Matter, 

 in a greatly diffused condition, is always in much 

 greater motion, that is. contains a greater mobility, 

 than when it is solid. The lessening of this mobility, 

 into a condition of comparative stability, means the 

 loss of motion, and this motion is said to come back, 

 when a change is made from a solid to a fluid, or to a 

 gas. Hence integration means a loss of motion from 

 the substance integrated. The reverse process is the 



