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"creative synthesis." Other qualities of the system are the same 

 as those which the parts retain when isolated. The latter give an 

 additive result in the complex, the former do not. 



It is now possible to make a statement as to what the cell is, and, 

 if we may generalize, to answer our major question as to just how 

 different organic phenomena are from inorganic. 



According to our hypothesis the cell is a system, a complex of 

 energies or of colloidal particles, etc. Some of these components 

 can be isolated, and, with this done, are found to follow the usual 

 inorganic laws; these they are therefore assumed to follow when 

 in the complex. The same assumption is also made for those 

 components which cannot be isolated; that is, the contrary posi- 

 tion that such an "exclusion" demonstrates the presence of an 

 irreducible, organic, vital remainder is held to be incorrect in view 

 of the successful application of the energy-laws to theorganism as 

 a whole. 



The qualities of the cell, are some of them, identical with the 

 qualities of the parts and are the additive result of these, while 

 others are the result of the "creative synthesis" of two or more 

 constituent energies, etc. All these qualities are at the same time 

 quantities, either extensive or intensive. 



Now, without it being necessary to treat either these energies 

 or the qualities of the system analytically, it has been possible, 

 since at least some of them act together to produce, or are identi- 

 cal with, the event of cleavage, to measure this as a whole and bring 

 it under the Four Laws. Thus are the subordinate events which 

 contribute to this resultant event also brought into the range of the 

 validity of these Laws. 



The qualities of the organism — which are also quantities — are, 

 accordingly, shown to be qualities which on this quantitative side 

 have certain characteristics which are the same as those of the 

 inorganic world — namely, those characteristics which the Four 

 Laws formulate. Conversely, the Four Laws, as formulating 

 these common characteristics, and as epitomized in equation [8], 

 bring the concrete phenomena, both organic and inorganic, and 

 the series of empirical laws into a "natural classification." 



But this does not do away with the fact that here in the so-called 



