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We can help ourselves out, as Haeckel does, by calling the physical forces such as the magnet that attracts the iron filings, the powder that explodes, the steam that drives the locomotive, and the like "living inorganics," and looking upon them as acting by "living force as much as the sensitive mimosa does when it contracts its leaves at touch."
The magnet that attracts iron filings, the powder that explodes, the steam that drives the locomotive, are living inorganics; they act by living force as much as the sensitive Mimosa does when it contracts its leaves at touch, or the venerable Amphioxus that buries itself in the sand of the sea, or man when he thinks.
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