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while the latter always is, why cannot 

 the chemists produce organized matter? 



If Btichner had proposed these or 

 similar questions and taken time to 

 think them over, he would have ob- 

 tained a different result, but instead he 

 breaks off his argumentation just where 

 it should have commenced. 



Consequently the fault in the ma- 

 terialists' process of thinking does not 

 lie in the facts used as foundation for 

 their argument. The premises and the 

 beginning are correct. Just because or- 

 ganic matter consists of the same ele- 

 ments as inorganic, just for this reason 

 natural science can decide whether the 

 physical laws are able spontaneously 

 to produce such matter and such ma- 

 chines. The materialists have stopped 

 after providing the introduction; the 

 continuation and the end are lacking. 

 They have overlooked the whole series 

 of scientific facts that stand in neces- 

 sary correlation to the starting point. 

 We have therefore only to resume the 

 interrupted demonstration and will 



