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Tears came, and emotions, a more specialized instinct. "He was learning something else, too. But pain still whipped him on, filled him with fear of non-life, and he grew cowardly.
That the highest and most complex organisms have been developed from the lowest and simplest; that a single physical basis of life is the substance of the whole living world; that no line of separation can be drawn between the animal and vegetable; that the difference between life and non-life is only a difference of degree, not of kind; that matter is not less incomprehensible than mind, while both are but varying manifestations of one and the same unknown reality, these have already become the commonplaces of the new philosophy.
For Life cannot come from non-Life, and if there be not Life in the particles, the theory of Omnipresent Life must fan. So we must look beyond the form and shape of the mineral mist separate it into its constituent parts, and then examine the parts for indications of Life. Science teaches us that all forms of matter are compiled of minute particles called molecules.
Some think that the germs of life may have come to the earth from some other body in the universe; some think that life was evolved out of non-living matter in the early ages of the earth, under exceptional conditions which we do not at present know, or can only dimly conjecture; and some think that life is being evolved from non-life in nature to-day, and always has been so evolving.
"The laws of the physical realm are called science, such as the fact that energy and matter are neither created or destroyed in any natural or artificial process, or that everything left to itself tends toward disorder, or that life cannot come from non-life by natural or artificial processes. The laws of the spiritual realm are called morality.
We hear much of the claims of scientists who announce that they are on the eve of "creating life" from non-living matter. This is all nonsense life can come only from life. Life from non-life is an absurdity. And all Life comes from the One Life underlying All.
It has the merit of suggesting a reason why life may not be evolving from non-life in nature to-day, although it may have so evolved in the Archaean period. Other students suggest other combinations of carbon-compounds and water in the early days. Some suggest that electric action was probably far more intense in those ages; others think that quantities of radium may have been left at the surface.
But then we should not exist." "And why is it necessary that we should exist?" "Why, to live, to be sure." "And why live? The Schopenhauers, the Hartmanns, and all the Buddhists, say that the greatest happiness is Nirvana, Non-Life; and they are right in this sense, that human happiness is coincident with the annihilation of 'Self. Only they do not express themselves well.
Indeed, he goes further. * See his address in Nature, vol. 76, p. 651. For other speculations see Verworn's "General Physiology," Butler Burke's "Origin of Life" , and Dr. Bastian's "Origin of Life" . It is evident that the popular notion that scientific men have declared that life cannot be evolved from non-life is very far astray.
Beauty is omnipresent, therefore everything is capable of giving us joy. In the early days of his history man took everything as a phenomenon of life. His science of life began by creating a sharp distinction between life and non-life. But as it is proceeding farther and farther the line of demarcation between the animate and inanimate is growing more and more dim.
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