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As a matter of fact, our experimental obser- 

 vations only amount to this, that in the 

 ordinary and common interactions of matter 

 and energy with which physicist and biologist 

 have hitherto dealt, these laws hold, but we 

 must not allow our naturally great respect 

 for them to close our eyes to the fact that 

 outside these limits, in types of reaction which 

 are just beginning to dawn upon us, these 

 laws, while still holding in a manner, may be 

 so varied as to give room for the inception of 

 both inorganic and organic evolution. 



By expenditure of energy in formation of 

 matter from something less complex than 

 matter, or by the setting free of energy at a 

 high potential (or power) due to destruction 

 of matter, the problem of creation may be 

 reducible to simpler terms. Experimental 

 evidence to the exclusion of such a view does 

 not exist, and traces of evidence are lately 

 beginning to come into view, which are highly 

 suggestive of continuous present-day creation 

 of matter at the inorganic level, and of creation 

 of life from inorganic materials at the organic 

 level. 



Again, by an extension of the doctrine of the 

 conservation of matter, it was, until quite 

 recently, held that there existed a definite 

 number of primary forms of matter amounting 



