WHAT IS LIFE? 61 



fifteen to eighteen hours before the whole mass is frozen. 

 The process of thawing must also be slow. 



"Through this process it is believed that Siberian stur- 

 geon and Alaskan salmon can be exported alive to dis- 

 tant markets." 



It is clear that life is not sunlight nor has sunlight pro- 

 duced life because the lower organisms or cells such as 

 bacteria are disorganized and destroyed by sunlight. We 

 also know that life is not electricity or magnetism because 

 we see this force employed only by some animals and not 

 by others as in the great electric eel of Africa where the 

 electric organs weigh more than one-third of the entire 

 fish. Life is not any of the forces of nature that we have 

 yet discovered. The cell is the animal that contains life. 

 We contain life because we contain the cells, in the same 

 manner as a ship contains life because it contains people. 

 The cell builds with the crude elements of matter and 

 force in the universe in the same manner as man does. 

 In answer then to the question, what is life, we are 

 compelled to say that it is the activities and products of 

 the living animal or being we call cell. 



