82 BIOLOGICAL LECTURES. 



physical beginning. If we find energy in the form of matter, 

 it is not necessarily there. If we find life in it, it is because 

 mind is operative in all ether and therefore in all matter, and 

 cannot be exorcised from it. Some philosophers speak of this 

 as " infinite and eternal energy," but it is not such energy as 

 the physicist measures in foot pounds. Other philosophers 

 call it God, and can one express in terser, truer or more 

 scientific language the relation of mankind to this infinite power 

 than did Paul in Athens : " In Him we live and move and have 

 our being." 



