MATTER, MEASURE. 



what it will do when subjected to work up to the ex- 

 tremity of its powers. 



The clock having a spring, and the spring being 

 wound up, will admit of a certain amount of work is 

 it not a form of life generated within the condition? 

 The expiration of the condition means expiration of the 

 form of work or life so applied. 



When that clock is bordering the limit of the form 

 of work or life so applied within the condition, it goes 

 through the same convultions as the man does when 

 bordering the limit of his existence in the condition of 

 life applied to him as a man. 



Man is a compound of material properties born 

 of a condition of temperature in the cooling of the 

 planet, and a recurrence of the conditions will produce 

 man again and again. In the case of the clock having 

 a spring wound up to do a certain amount of work, 

 produce the same condition by winding the spring and 

 the same form of life will recur again and again. In 

 either case, the forming of a man or bringing about the 

 recurrence of the condition of life within the clock, 

 they are one and the same. Subject the particles of mat- 

 ter that make up the man to the same conditions that 

 brought about life in that form, and life will recur. 

 Subject the particles of the clock to the same condi- 

 tions that brought about the form of life and it will re- 

 cur. 



The life existing in the form of movement and 

 action on the part of the clock by the winding of a 

 spring is heir to the condition of compression brought 



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