LIFE IN THE SUPRA-WORLD 137 



clusters, become less complex in structure, and are 

 finally rejected, together with what remains of the 

 victim after its useful clusters have been annexed. 



Enlarge the amoeba to the size of our galactic 

 system, and you will have a starry vault more 

 brilliant than ours, with stars more numerous and 

 less far apart, but with the same stupendous majesty 

 of motion and development, the same age-long 

 evolution as ours. Its life will be as inscrutable, 

 no more and no less, than the " life " of our own 

 galaxy. We shall be just as unable to discern 

 voluntary motion or trace the traffic of energy 

 through the system. Possibly our galaxy has no 

 voluntary motion. Its life may be more vegetative 

 than animal. It may be concerned in building up 

 elaborate structures rather than in undoing them. 

 In any case, its life is bound to be what we call 

 intense or strenuous. Life is measured intensively 

 by the number and variety of experiences crowded 

 into a given time. This number and variety, as 

 our calculations have tended to show, is very great 

 in the supra-world. A roving galaxy has, so to 

 speak, a lively time of it. Taking the word " life " 

 in its very widest sense, as a registering and utilisa- 

 of experiences, and including among the latter 

 conscious, sub-conscious, and " material " effects, there 

 cry justification for applying the term " life " 

 to the existence and development of our own or 

 any other galaxy. The only reasonable doubt applies 



