WHAT IS PHYSICAL LIFE 



avail when preference is so supremely 

 dominant. 



But that does not prevent us from stat- 

 ing our own preference, though from want 

 of space we can refer to but a few out 

 of many reasons for that preference. 



In the first place, it looks incongruous 

 to us for the advocate of this "thing" 

 doctrine to put on the ermine of Science, 

 and as Lord Chancellor take the seat of 

 judgment. For he will lose both title 

 and place with this first test case, which 

 is that of one who may think of a person 

 as a thing of molecules, atoms, and ions, 

 only so long as what he is thinking about 

 is the other fellow. But so soon as the 

 same question is turned inwards and put 

 to his own self, the conscious personality 

 within answers with an emphatic, No! 

 Let any one really try this on himself and 

 he will see that he, and not molecules, is 

 thinking, and that the consciousness of his 

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