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is carefully recorded; and that show, even by fine galvanometric 

 records, only moderate electric disturbances. So the only 

 explanation, or mode of escaping the difficulties of the question, 

 has been to say that all is due to "that mysterious something 

 we call life." In the next chapter an effort will be made to 

 analyze life, even in its higher phases, as being an expression 

 of several highly perfect forms of energy in active cooperation 

 to build up increasingly more complex molecules or energized 

 ether particles, and thereby start increasingly complex adjust- 

 ments to environal agents and factors. 



