WHAT IS PHYSICAL LIFE 



is that a man can feel just where his mind 

 is in his head if he puts the proper hand 

 to the other side of his skull. How it 

 happens that virtually only half our brain 

 matter is intelligent, and what that " how " 

 proves as to ourselves, is discussed at 

 length in the author's book, Brain and 

 Personality, and therefore need not be 

 further detailed here. 



In conclusion we may say that it is 

 quite natural for many persons to be per- 

 plexed at the opposite deductions of scien- 

 tific men on the subject of the origin and 

 nature of physical life. Some scientific 

 authorities strongly, if not contemptu- 

 ously, maintain that life is a purely chem- 

 ico-physical phenomenon which some day 

 will be so demonstrated. The conception 

 that it is not so, but sui generis, they regard 

 as a lingering superstitious myth. Others 

 as firmly believe that nothing physico- 

 chemical can possibly account for life, and 

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