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merits until the decision can be given ac- 

 cording to the facts. After that is done, 

 we contend that a consideration of the 

 most essential elements in the existence 

 and in the development of life shows that 

 they are totally different from all other 

 facts or laws and cannot possibly be de- 

 rived from them. This is our .contention ; 

 that life is not physico-chemical in origin 

 or in nature we would emphasize from 

 the outset. 



When men began to think about the 

 phenomena of Nature, their readiest ex- 

 planation for everything was furnished by 

 the consciousness of their own personality. 

 As they acted according to their own 

 wishes, hopes or fears, which led to their 

 creating objects or causing events to come 

 to pass, so they concluded that everything 

 in nature, good and bad alike, must have 

 a corresponding designing personality to 

 account for it. The progress of knowl- 

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