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  THE 
  UNIQUENESS 
  OF 
  LIFE 
  

  

  doing 
  so, 
  so 
  it 
  is 
  possible 
  that 
  an 
  aspect 
  of 
  reality 
  which 
  may 
  

   be 
  safely 
  neglected, 
  being 
  latent 
  or 
  hidden, 
  in 
  one 
  constella- 
  

   tion 
  of 
  matter 
  and 
  energy, 
  may 
  be 
  patent 
  and 
  dominant 
  in 
  

   another. 
  Instead 
  of 
  supposing 
  the 
  intervention 
  of 
  vital 
  

   impetus 
  or 
  Entelechies 
  as 
  bolts 
  from 
  the 
  blue 
  which 
  enter 
  

   organisms, 
  may 
  we 
  not 
  conclude 
  that 
  the 
  qualities 
  which 
  

   render 
  the 
  postulation 
  of 
  vital 
  impetus 
  and 
  Entelechy 
  neces- 
  

   sary 
  to 
  some 
  minds 
  have 
  been 
  in 
  kind 
  present 
  throughout. 
  

   We 
  say 
  " 
  in 
  kind 
  ", 
  since 
  most 
  naturalists 
  agree 
  in 
  believing 
  

   that 
  we 
  share 
  in 
  a 
  movement 
  which 
  is 
  not 
  the 
  unwinding 
  

   of 
  something 
  originally 
  given, 
  but 
  an 
  evolution 
  in 
  which 
  

   time 
  counts. 
  

  

  Our 
  argument 
  for 
  the 
  autonomy 
  of 
  biology 
  may 
  be 
  ex- 
  

   pressed 
  in 
  general 
  form 
  by 
  saying 
  that 
  it 
  recognises 
  the 
  

   correlation 
  rather 
  than 
  the 
  unity 
  of 
  the 
  science 
  of 
  Nature. 
  

   We 
  find 
  it 
  technically 
  stated 
  by 
  Prof. 
  Arthur 
  O. 
  Lovejoy: 
  

   " 
  Scientific 
  unification 
  takes 
  place 
  in 
  so 
  far 
  as 
  diverse 
  classes 
  

   of 
  phenomena 
  come 
  to 
  be 
  recognised 
  as 
  deducible 
  from 
  a 
  

   single, 
  relatively 
  simple 
  generalisation 
  concerning 
  the 
  cor- 
  

   relation 
  of 
  certain 
  variables 
  provided 
  that 
  in 
  each 
  partic- 
  

   ular 
  case 
  the 
  actual 
  natures 
  or 
  values 
  of 
  the 
  variables 
  be 
  

   known. 
  And 
  unification 
  fails 
  of 
  attainment 
  in 
  so 
  far 
  as 
  

   two 
  or 
  more 
  kinds 
  of 
  phenomena 
  appear 
  (in 
  the 
  light 
  of 
  

   existing 
  knowledge) 
  as 
  undeducible 
  from 
  any 
  single, 
  already 
  

   verified 
  law, 
  even 
  were 
  the 
  actual 
  values 
  of 
  the 
  variables 
  

   referred 
  to 
  by 
  any 
  such 
  law 
  precisely 
  ascertained 
  for 
  the 
  

   phenomena 
  in 
  question. 
  When 
  two 
  or 
  more 
  comparatively 
  

   specific 
  laws 
  are, 
  in 
  the 
  latter 
  sense, 
  incapable 
  of 
  being 
  

   deduced 
  from 
  any 
  common, 
  more 
  general, 
  law 
  in 
  other 
  

   words, 
  are 
  not 
  thus 
  far 
  unified- 
  -we 
  may 
  speak 
  of 
  the 
  laws 
  

   as 
  being 
  discontinuous 
  with 
  one 
  another 
  7 
  (1912, 
  p. 
  17). 
  

   He 
  goes 
  on 
  to 
  say 
  that 
  while 
  discontinuity 
  emerges 
  if 
  the 
  

  

  