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inorganic substances alike, yet in the study of 

 the former we meet with new, strange and often 

 fascinating phenomena which are without paral- 

 lel in the inorganic realm. "^ 

 The peculiarities of the new complex described 

 answer to the peculiarities of growth, reproduction, 

 and the living state of the organism, and to the state 

 of the body after death. 

 It would appear that — 



1. The dual-system in fact describes the organism. 



2. The Z-system, the intraatomic system, accounts 

 for the living state of the organism. 



3. The Z-system accounts for the peculiar dy- 

 namics of the organism. 



4. The Z-system, the intraatomic quantity, an- 

 swers to life. (Greek zoe, life.) 



5. The establishment of a definite rigid pattern 

 that permits only the reactions possible to that 

 pattern, accounts for the specificity of species, 



6. The peculiar properties of the Z-system, that 

 necessarily are utterly different from the properties 

 of the material system by reason of the difference of 

 manner of the combination — these properties be- 

 cause of the identification of the intraatomic system 

 as life, are the peculiar properties of life, and thus 

 account for the psychic contents of life, consciousness 



* Outlines of Organic Chemistry, 1. 



