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That man is able to produce objects 

 of art we have sufficient evidence in 

 material invention, from the simple 

 stone-ax up to the most complicated 

 machines. But if man can create prod- 

 ucts of art he must himself be a super- 

 natural cause, as natural products pro- 

 duce nothing but their own kind. And 

 not only he but also the beings that 

 build up his organism must be super- 

 natural causes, as we have seen that 

 all organic matter ipso facto are prod- 

 ucts of art. 



In all these different forms and spe- 

 cies of products of art we possess, 

 therefore, boundless masses of obvious 

 and visible evidence that life is not a 

 quality of matter. In order to break 

 through the mechanical causality and 

 introduce into the material world ef- 

 fects which never could be spontane- 

 ously forthcoming, life must have a 

 supernatural origin, must be a prin- 

 ciple independent of matter. 



By resuming the demonstration that 

 the materialists had broken off, we 



