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made necessary by the quantitative view of life, it 

 will come into its own by leaps and bounds. Today 

 psychology does not compare favorably with the 

 physical sciences, and has little value — except to 

 the advertiser (teaching him how to control human 

 behavior). Psychology may be said to be concerned 

 almost exclusively with behavior, having "lost" (as 

 someone put it) first the soul, then the mind, and 

 finally consciousness. According to the theory, 

 psychology must treat of all of these, and treat of 

 them quantitatively. 



XV. The statement of the difference between 

 living matter and non-living matter. 



Stephane Leduc, professor at I'Ecole de Medecine 

 de Nantes, whose exquisite osmotic forms bear a 

 striking resemblance to life-forms, insisted upon "the 

 impossibility of defining the exact line of demarka- 

 tion between animate and inanimate matter"; and 

 said further: "There is in fact no sharp division, 

 no precise limit where inanimate nature ends and 

 life begins."^ 



Others have made the same emphatic assertion. 

 Felix le Dantec, professor of the Faculty of Sciences 

 at the Sorbonne, maintains: "With the new knowl- 

 edge acquired by science, the enlightened mind no 

 longer needs to see the fabrication of protoplasm in 



' The Mechanism of Life, 159, 147. 



