128 TWO NEW WORLDS 



portion of the thinking universe. Whole realms of 

 potential or sub-conscious mental activity are stored 

 away in more or less permanent configurations. 

 Our conscious life is a very small part of our total 

 life. We carry on vast activities which, having 

 become automatic, no longer emerge above the level 

 of consciousness. Our " life " comprehends the whole 

 array of changes in the atomic structure of our 

 physical organism, together with the sub-conscious 

 mental activity represented by these changes, and 

 the little gleam or "flicker" of conscious life at 

 the top. If that is the case in ourselves, in what 

 is to us the most familiar (or, indeed, the only 

 familiar) part of the sentient universe, how can 

 we expect to enter into the soul-life of the lower 

 organisms, not to speak of so-called inorganic or 

 "dead" matter? We should be chary of denying 

 every species of life to an aggregation of matter 

 simply because it is very bulky, and because its 

 evolution is difficult to observe. 



Supra-Light. The supra-star is the largest body 

 in the supra-world which we have as yet sub- 

 jected to calculation. We have made its mass 

 10 53 grammes and its diameter 10 32 cm. But we 

 can say a good deal more with a high degree of 

 probability. Its temperature is enormous. By 

 temperature we do not mean the kinetic energy 

 of what we call atoms, but the kinetic energy of 

 the " atoms " of the supra- world, these being what 



