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spells life, giving rise to the peculiar properties of life. 

 9. Since all psychic properties attend life, and life 

 is defined as a quantity, it follows that the quantity 

 "life" is identical with "soul." Life and "the soul" 

 are not, as some have insisted, two different prob- 

 lems; nor is the problem of "mind" separate from 

 the problem of life (as John Fiske thought). All 

 problems of the soul and of mind are problems of 

 the quantity "life." 



XII. DEATH 



According to the theory, death of an organism 

 can mean only one thing: the rupture between and 

 the separation of the two systems that constitute 

 the organism. 



