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into any of the forms of ' energy ' with which physi- 

 cal science deals. As Tyndal admitted, ' the chasm 

 between them is intellectually impassable '." 



" Correlated with mind," says Professor Ward, 1 

 " the complex characteristics of all forms of life are 

 intelligible ; but to interpret them literally in terms 

 of physical interaction, and apart from mind, is 

 surely impossible." 



In conclusion the writer might perhaps be 

 allowed to say that his sole object was to bring 

 forward such biological evidence as had come 

 under his notice in favour of a vitalistic or a neo- 

 vitalistic for as has been shown, the two are 

 identical explanation of living matter. It has 

 been no part of his intention to deal with the 

 question of the human soul and its relation to the 

 activities of the human body, since that is a matter 

 for theologians rather than for biologists to deal 

 with. Nor has he desired to wander in the paths 

 of the philosophers and debate the nature of the 

 vital force nor to discuss, with Scotus, the question 

 as to the relations of the operations of the cells 

 or collections of cells into organs with the body of 

 which they form a part. Whether all the " energise " 

 are parts of a whole, or whether, as Scotus taught 

 long ago, there are inferior or subservient kinds of 

 "forms" or "energise" within the organism dom- 

 1 Op. cit., i., 285. 



