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the setting up of new equilibrium conditions which 

 resulted in the origin of the dual-system, living mat- 

 ter. This condition, too — the condition, namely, of a 

 critical concentration of ions, following trauma or 

 other injury to cell structure, is the cause of cancer 

 and of other neoplasms. {See pp. 181, 182). 



It would appear that this new theory of life is 

 a definition of the organism that is absolutely funda- 

 mental; that differentiates living matter from the non- 

 living world; that is descriptive of all living beings; 

 and that applies exclusively to living beings. 



It provides for all the wide differences as well as 

 for the likenesses that are found in the scale of 

 organisms; it provides for the psychic qualities ex- 

 hibited by the higher organisms, and especially by 

 man; and it shows the cause of cancer and of other 

 neoplasms. 



X. THE LAW OF THE STRUCTURE OF LIVING 



MATTER 



According to this new theory of life, living matter 

 invariably consists of an atomic system (a system 

 made up of chemical atoms) that is organized and 

 interpenetrated by another system. 



The atomic system is matter, or a material system; 

 the intraatomic system is life, not matter, immaterial. 



The two systems are constituted of the same kind 



