562 BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS 



developments of the universe, those of organic nature 

 included. 



Thus regarded, the entity matter seems the more 

 passive partner in the working of organic activity, lending 

 itself merely to active change of form and arrangement, 

 under the resolvent influence of energy, and comporting 

 itself so as to allow the combined business, so to speak, of 

 the partnership to be conducted to the greatest mutual and 

 individual, as well as general, advantage, for specific ends 

 and purposes, temporary and more permanent. 



Energy, however, was long comparatively ignored by 

 the world at large, or, if dimly perceived, was so over- 

 shadowed by its more apparent partner matter, that its 

 qualities and attributes are now only being gradually 

 appreciated by the powers of science, and brought home 

 to the intelligence of that world, by their scientifically 

 directed and utilitarian application to its everyday neces- 

 sities. In the human organism energy and matter 

 are united in all the vital work characterising it, in sub- 

 servience to the behests of intrinsic and extrinsic neces- 

 sities, and it is only by that human organism that the 

 highest physico-psychic attainments have been reached in 

 the organic world, and that the " confines " of the im- 

 material, metaphysical, and theologically recognised spiritual 

 universe have been entered, and to some extent traversed. 

 The mode of energy called " vital " inter-penetrates the 

 formative or protoplasmic matter, and organically " in- 

 spires " and arranges it to suit the developmental require- 

 ments of the living and growing organism of man, beginning 

 its proper operations in the primordial particles, set apart by 

 appropriate selective provision for the propagation of the 

 species, and terminating them sooner or later with the 

 death or devitalisation of the more or less mature, or 

 perhaps senile, individual organism. This vital energy 

 must, necessarily, be primarily imparted to, and must 

 co-incidently determine, the primary molecular arrange- 

 ment of germ and sperm cell materials respectively, each 

 of these supplying thereafter its contribution of formative 

 plasmic elements to the common resultant uni-cellular 

 organism. 



The uni-cellular human organism being thus materially 



