120 WHAT IS LIFE 



In this country we generally find that inherent 

 is the term used, but as one means that something 

 is sticking in something else and the other that 

 something is remaining in something else it matters 

 but little which of them we use. Neither of them 

 explains anything, for neither of them tells us the 

 least little bit how the something came to stick or 

 to remain in the other something or what it is which 

 sticks or remains there, and this is precisely what 

 we want to know and what the explanation pro- 

 fessed to be about to tell us. 



Let us, however, pursue our inquiry into this 

 explanation a little farther. Let us ask whether 

 the phrase "constellations of energy" is only a 

 rhetorical effort or whether it has any real signifi- 

 cance in the world of facts. Does its author in any 

 way define it or explain what it means ? Yes, we 

 find that these "constellations" are defined as 

 being " the biophors, the determinants, and the 

 1 groups of determinants ' which we may think of 

 as disposed in a manifold overlapping series ". 



We may think, of course, of any subject which 

 it is not forbidden us to think about, and to think 

 about biophors and the like is certainly not a 

 mortal sin. But have they any real existence? 

 Are we on any solid ground if we look to them as 

 the constituent parts of the constellations of energy 

 in which we are so much interested ? 



