CHAPTER VI. 

 How Is Organic Matter Produced? 



THE ESSENTIAL in matter is 

 force. Strictly speaking, we com- 

 prehend nothing but forces. Every body 

 manifests itself as resistance necessary 

 to overcome if we wish to remove it 

 from its place. 



What remains of the body if we 

 think of it as deprived of this counter 

 force? At least nothing remains that 

 we can touch or by which we may ob- 

 tain palpable evidence of its existence. 

 Neither does there remain anything 

 that we can see, as seeing depends upon 

 resistance to light, reflection of the 

 ether-waves. If the mountain exerted 

 no resistance we would pass through 

 it without feeling or seeing anything 

 whatever. 



True, there is perhaps matter — for in- 

 stance, the ether — which we neither see 



