Nature of the Universe 15 



tern that produces the kind of thing of which the 

 physicist and biologist are samples, of which you and 

 I are samples, including all that we are, all that we 

 experience. 



Anyone who tries to make for himself a picture of 

 the world must reckon with this fact. This universe is 

 one that brings forth life, and life includes the inner 

 experiences that we have just mentioned. 



When, therefore, we think of electrons, protons, 

 neutrons, atoms, or other elementary constituents of 

 things, our idea of them is incomplete and inadequate 

 in most fundamental ways if we do not include in 

 their properties the production of life when they be- 

 come combined in certain ways. Among their proper- 

 ties is the production of sensations, emotions, thought, 

 of all the diversified mental experiences which belong 

 to living things, to men. When a group of the ele- 

 mentary particles become joined in certain ways, 

 under certain conditions, they begin to feel, to have 

 knowledge, and to think. This property of the ele- 

 mentary particles could indeed not be known until it 

 was manifested, until they did become combined in 

 such ways as to produce life ; but when that occurs, it 

 shows one of the fundamental facts about them, one 

 of the fundamental things about the universe. Life 

 and sensation and thought are not things apart, prop- 

 erties of some extra-mundane spectator of a universe 

 that does not include them; things to be left out of 

 account in the picture of reality, as we sometimes find 

 to be the practice. 



On the contrary, life, with its sensations, emotions, 



