80 DEATH AND RESURRECTION. 



us see how the materialists derive their 

 philosophy from the facts mentioned. 



There are many other objects in this 

 world, of which we might almost ver- 

 bally repeat what Buchner says about 

 organic matter; for instance, windows, 

 doors, locks, bricks, houses, etc. In 

 these objects also there is not one atom 

 to be found which was not present in 

 the raw material of which they were 

 made. But does the raw material it- 

 self produce these things? So Buchner 

 reasons. He says: "Because all organic 

 matter consists of inorganic raw material, 

 therefore the raw material, itself, has made 

 the organic matter. Because the organism 

 is essentially like a steam engine, the 

 building material itself has made the or- 

 ganism." 



This headlong way of reasoning and 

 concluding is not characteristic of 

 Buchner alone, but applies equally to 

 the whole materialistic school during 

 the past century. 



We have not said that inorganic raw 

 material is unable to produce organic 



