262 Anima Mundi. 



Besides : that physical forces guide matter, is a 

 doctrine neither new nor strange ; but here we 

 have the doctrine that matter guides physical 

 forces a doctrine not less strange than new. 

 " But is it not more probable that neither matter 

 nor force is capable of guiding or directing force 

 or matter ? Matter may be said to rule and 

 guide itself, but. it can hardly be ruled and 

 guided by itsel It might, however, be ruled 

 and guided by something else. 



"Concerning the dictum about jelly guiding 

 physical forces, I shall, therefore, venture to 

 remark I. That living matter is not jelly ; 

 7. That neither jelly nor matter is capable of 

 guiding or directing forces of any kind ; and 3. . 

 That the capacity of jelly to guide forces, which 

 Prof. Huxley says is a fact of the profoundest 

 significance to him, is not a fact at all, but 

 merely an assertion." * 



10. " If a machine that moved itself could, of 

 itself, divide into new machines, and each take 

 up particles of brass and iron and steel, or 

 other substances entering into its construction, 

 and deposit these in the proper places, so that 

 the several wheels and other elementary parts 

 of the mechanism should grow evenly and 

 regularly, and continue to work while all these 

 1 Dr. Scale's " Protoplasm," pp. 74, 75, 77, 81. 



