HUMAN LIFE 



pot of chemicalism it is chiefly owing to 

 my wife and child. 



Not that I cannot recognize in them the 

 presence of bodies composed of engines, 

 and of living tissues and organs com 

 posed of substances, mostly very complex, 

 but at bottom made up of the same 

 chemical elements which make up the 

 less complex substances of non-living 

 matter. Nor that I cannot perceive in 

 them the results of the influences of the 

 biological laws that I find also in the 

 various lower forms of life. 



But I find more in them, so much more 

 indeed, that although my scientific train 

 ing and knowledge urge me to look on 

 this more as only quantitatively more, 

 my common sense and general experience, 

 let alone my recognition of the limitations 

 of scientific knowledge, compel me to see 

 in them the manifestations of natural 

 possibilities so far removed from or in 

 advance of those manifestations as re 

 vealed in non-living matter or in the 

 whole range of the rest of the world 

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