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turn content. Some physicists, notably Schrodinger, think 

 that organization is one of the major categories in nature and 

 may actually control, and not merely arise from, matter. 

 These thinkers feel that the centers of organization are pri- 

 mary things, and that they may exist independently of the 

 matter in which they are now individualized, each as a part 

 of a universal spiritual whole. These concepts of organiza- 

 tion now applied with such promising results in physics, 

 chemistry, psychology, and philosophy, and all the biologi- 

 cal sciences, are bringing the unity of aim in man's intellectual 

 inquiries much nearer the day when, to repeat J. W. N, 

 Sullivan, the "differences between the sciences of mind, life, 

 and matter, in their present form, will be seen to be unreal." 

 The objective of my thesis was to show that there is com- 

 plete continuity in evidence for the contention that the 

 mind of man is an expression of the innate psychical quality 

 that Bruno thought existed as one with every particle of the 

 universe. In short, the mind-matter -energy substance is seek- 

 ing consciousness through evolution. The contention was 

 not made that man was the goal of evolution; only, that his 

 mind represents a high-level expression of the psychical po- 

 tential. It has been shown throughout this account that the 

 rising configurations of the physical phase of evolution 

 finally set the stage on this earth for the appearance of life; 

 and that life originated through an organic synthesis, gradu- 

 ally and imperceptibly, following natural laws. These laws 

 would bring life into existence everywhere in the infinite 

 universe whenever and wherever the necessary conditions 

 prevailed, and they would carry that life to whatever heights 

 were possible iji each particular situation. The appearance of 

 the main kinds of plant and animal organisms was traced 

 through phyletic change to the advent of man. In the origin 

 of the human body, a complete and uninterrupted con- 

 tinuity exists from the subatomic microcosm through its 

 physical configurations to the organic series leading to mam- 

 mals, primates, and man. 



