112 DEATH AND RESURRECTION. 



Exactly the same reasons that pre- 

 vent natural forces from building a 

 steam engine, cause also their inability 

 to produce an organism, and this in a 

 much higher degree because the organ- 

 ism is in a still fuller sense a product 

 of art. The organic building material, 

 instead of being plates and ingots of 

 iron, copper, lead, etc., consists of car- 

 bon, hydrogen, sulphur, phosphorus, 

 chlorin, potassium, sodium, magnesia, 

 etc., or both metals and metalloids of 

 which the former, on account of their 

 negative, and the latter because of their 

 positive qualities cannot exist in a free 

 state. From the minerals found in 

 nature these substances must be ex- 

 tracted for organic purposes. The ele- 

 ments are different, but otherwise we 

 may verbally repeat in regard to or- 

 ganic substance what has been previ- 

 ously said about the steam engine. 



It is the creation of organic matter 

 by art that the materialists have neg- 

 lected to take into account. Therefore 

 they look upon the organism just as a 



