WHAT IS PHYSICAL LIFE 

 200, 500, 1,000, or 2,000 diameters, which 

 only means that different objectives, as 

 they are called, bring our eyes within 1-4, 

 or 1-8, or 1-12, or 1-15, or 1-25 of an inch 

 of the object. 



And what have these mechanical devices 

 of ours for helping our eyes to see, not 

 done for the human world? So impor- 

 tant to all life is that living world 

 about which our native eyes would never 

 have given us the least information, 

 that it is evident that no physical instru- 

 ment can suffice for man, because he is so 

 much greater than anything physical. All 

 eyes made of protoplasm, including the 

 eyes of the anthropoid apes, belong only 

 to low origins and levels, but this mineral 

 made microscope belongs to the Andean 

 heights of Mind. 



However, we have still other reasons 

 for dissatisfaction with our eyes. They 

 see Canopus, the second brightest star in 



