CHAPTER VII. 

 Organic Matter as a Product of Art. 



FROM the previous chapter we now 

 draw the extremely important con- 

 clusion that all organic matter is a 

 product of art, that is, a product which 

 the forces of nature cannot produce. 

 Spontaneously these forces only create 

 natural products. Products of art be- 

 long to an entirely different category; 

 they owe their existence to a foreign 

 interference in the natural order of the 

 world and have a cause that does not 

 fall within the limits of a mere me- 

 chanical causality. But before we dis- 

 cuss this subject, let us first thoroughly 

 understand what we mean by saying 

 that organic matter is a product of art. 

 Materialists have shown that the 

 organism closely resembles a steam en- 

 gine, but they have neglected to point 



