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arising from and attending the peculiar Z-manner 

 of the combination of ultimate units to form life. 

 This Z-manner of combination supplying the quality, 

 the degree to which the quality is exhibited, is 

 determined quantitatively. 



7. The complicating factors introduced to chem- 

 istry and to physical chemistry by the dual-system 

 would answer to the complications that the organism 

 offers to science. Chemistry modified by the com- 

 plicating factors of the Z-system, answers to bio- 

 chemistry; modified physical chemistry, to physi- 

 ology; and the new and different science required to 

 treat of the properties of the Z-system, obviously 

 would be psychology — a new psychology, that is exact 

 like atomic physics, and that treats all psychic qualities 

 quantitatively. 



8. The separation of the Z-system from the Y- 

 system, the atomic system, accounts for the death 

 of the organism, and for the effects of death on the 

 body. It shows why autolysis does not take place 

 during life but does set in immediately after death. 



9. The process of the setting up of new relations 

 would account for the origin of life on the earth. 



Thus there follows this theory of life: 

 1. The organism is a dual system, an atomic- 

 intraatomic system. The atomic system is material, 

 and is the body of the organism; the intraatomic 



