196 W H AT la LIFE 



According to the theory, it will have to appear 

 that the Greek people arrived at maturity later, 

 perhaps two or three years later, than present white 

 peoples do, in order to prove that their dazzling 

 intellectual achievements were due to greater "brain 

 capacity" and higher psychic power. Unless it can 

 be shown that the Greeks were distinguished by a 

 longer period of infancy than ours, their supposed 

 superiority must be attributed merely to an un- 

 equaled devotion to education and culture. 



XXVII. The theory for the first time shows that 

 the problem of life itself is, not indirectly but directly, 

 a physical laboratory problem. 



Experimentally to establish the general law of the 

 structure of living matter, and the fact of life as a 

 quantity (given by the theory), falls to the lot of the 

 physicist. 



It is well known that the research of biophysics 

 consists in the study of the biological effects of 

 radium, and other rays; the measuring of the pene- 

 tration of certain rays into protoplasm; determining 

 the "absorption" and physiological action of rays 

 in protoplasm, etc. (Most of the work in biophysics 

 is done in connection with cancer research.) 



However, the proposition: Life is a quantity ^ a 

 quantity different from the quantity that is the body, 

 but constituted of the same, that is, like, elementary 



