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system is immaterial (i.e., not built on the pattern 

 of the atoms), and is the life of the organism. The 

 two systems are built up of the same ultimate con- 

 stituents, but on different patterns. 



2. Life is a quantity, an immaterial quantity, that 

 consists of the same ultimate constituents that 

 likewise constitute the elements, but combined after 

 a different pattern. 



3. The living state, or the state of living, of the 

 organism is due to the presence of the intraatomic 

 system, life (a quantity) in the body. 



4. Death is the separation of the two systems, the 

 separation of life from the body. 



5. The psychic properties of life, consciousness and 

 mind, arise from and attend the peculiar manner of 

 the combination of ultimate units to form life. 



6. The specificity of species merely denotes that in 

 the phylogenetic process the limit of possible sets of 

 reactions permitted by the pattern of the intraatomic 

 system, the life, of the organism has been reached. 

 It is fatal to further advance and higher development. 

 A species, then, is the end, not the beginning, of a 

 series of developmental changes. {See pp. 207, 208.) 



7. The origin of life on the earth was due to a local 

 condition of a critical concentration of ions (as 

 described) that, owing to the constitution and the 

 dynamics of the atom and the electron, necessitated 



