ON PROOF 271 



1. The stability, or state of living, of the organism 

 is due to an intraatomic system (life, or the soul). 



2. The organism is a dual (atomic-intraatomic) 

 system. 



3. Life, or the soul, is a quantity — a quantity 

 different and separable from the quantity which is 

 the body. 



4. Death is the rupture between, and the separa- 

 tion of, the two quantities. 



Obviously, these concepts either do or do not 

 answer to the facts. And the general problem of 

 physics that is involved in the question of proof, is 

 to establish the correctness or the erroneousness of 

 these several propositions. 



The theory concerning the law of the structure of 

 living matter is directly amenable to test. Whether 

 it is a fact that the organism is a dual system, as 

 described, can be experimentally determined by 

 laboratory test. It is not a mathematical proposition 

 that cannot be tested. Inquiring into the question of 

 direct proof, then, it appears that amenable to 

 laboratory test are: 



1 . The general law of the structure of living matter 

 — the description of the organism as a dual atomic- 

 intraatomic system. 



2. The definition of life — at least, so far as the 

 description of life as a quantity is concerned. 



