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  THE 
  UNIQUENESS 
  OF 
  LIFE 
  

  

  relationships 
  between 
  the 
  elements 
  as 
  members 
  of 
  a 
  system, 
  

   and 
  the 
  radio-active 
  elements 
  are 
  known 
  to 
  be 
  transmuting 
  

   themselves, 
  but 
  these 
  facts 
  also 
  bear 
  out 
  our 
  point 
  that 
  there 
  

   is 
  more 
  analogy 
  between 
  the 
  inorganic 
  and 
  the 
  organic 
  than 
  

   at 
  first 
  appears. 
  And 
  just 
  as 
  the 
  breeder 
  and 
  cultivator 
  help 
  

   to 
  make 
  new 
  animals 
  and 
  plants, 
  so 
  the 
  synthetic 
  chemist 
  

   makes 
  camphor 
  and 
  sugar, 
  rubber 
  and 
  alizarin, 
  and 
  the 
  

   physicist 
  as 
  engineer 
  makes 
  the 
  cleverest 
  machines 
  which 
  

   borrow 
  some 
  of 
  his 
  own 
  individuality. 
  The 
  breeder 
  works 
  

   mainly 
  by 
  analysis, 
  the 
  chemist 
  by 
  synthesis, 
  but 
  both 
  are 
  

   creative. 
  We 
  agree 
  with 
  those 
  thinkers, 
  like 
  Lloyd 
  Morgan, 
  

   who 
  have 
  tried 
  to 
  link 
  on 
  the 
  synthetic 
  tendency 
  which 
  

   they 
  detect 
  in 
  the 
  formation 
  of 
  crystals 
  and 
  the 
  building 
  

   up 
  of 
  carbon 
  compounds 
  to 
  the 
  synthetic 
  tendency 
  which 
  

   they 
  see 
  in 
  organic 
  development. 
  Lloyd 
  Morgan 
  refers 
  to 
  

   the 
  teaching 
  of 
  Nernst 
  that, 
  while 
  a 
  large 
  number 
  of 
  physical 
  

   properties 
  are 
  clearly 
  additive, 
  there 
  are 
  other 
  properties 
  

   which 
  are 
  non-additive, 
  and 
  should 
  be 
  called 
  constitutive. 
  

   " 
  The 
  kind 
  of 
  influence 
  of 
  the 
  atom 
  in 
  a 
  compound 
  is 
  pri- 
  

   marily 
  dependent 
  upon 
  the 
  mode 
  of 
  its 
  union, 
  that 
  is, 
  

   upon 
  the 
  constitution 
  and 
  configuration 
  of 
  the 
  compound 
  ' 
  

   (Nernst, 
  Theoretical 
  Chemistry. 
  Translated 
  by 
  Lehfeldt. 
  

   Quoted 
  in 
  The 
  New 
  Realism, 
  New 
  York, 
  1912, 
  p. 
  238). 
  

  

  Instead, 
  then, 
  of 
  seeking 
  to 
  interpolate 
  a 
  new 
  agency- 
  

   non-material 
  and 
  not 
  perceptual- 
  -we 
  express 
  the 
  fact 
  that 
  

   living 
  is 
  not 
  explicable 
  in 
  terms 
  of 
  matter 
  and 
  motion 
  by 
  

   saying 
  that 
  all 
  organisms 
  known 
  to 
  our 
  senses 
  as 
  colloca- 
  

   tions 
  of 
  protoplasm 
  reveal 
  new 
  aspects 
  of 
  reality, 
  tran- 
  

   scending 
  mechanical 
  formulation. 
  That 
  these 
  new 
  aspects 
  of 
  

   reality 
  are 
  analogous 
  to 
  those 
  which 
  are 
  exhibited 
  by 
  the 
  

   higher 
  organisms 
  namely, 
  intelligence 
  and 
  personality 
  

   may 
  by 
  and 
  by 
  appea 
  v 
  r, 
  for 
  our 
  central 
  idea 
  is 
  that 
  the 
  

  

  