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and cooled down to the vital scale of tempera- 

 ture, are seized and employed by a Power for 

 its end we might call it the Demiurge of 

 Life, the creative principle of the animate 

 world. For Chemism of itself cannot produce 

 Vitalism, though it be the latter 's immediate 

 agent and condition. Nor is the vital spark 

 the electric spark, yet the former doubtless 

 employs a good deal of electricity, though 

 under strict control. 



It should be added that the chemical ele- 

 ments have something which pushes or di- 

 rects them in their evolution toward an end. 

 From the starry depths they may be seen 

 dimly coming down this way in a kind of pro- 

 gression one after the other, till they reach 

 our Earth's life-temperature, when they are 

 slowly gripped by a new sort of energy, and 

 from a state of separation and independence 

 are whelmed into an organic process of whose 

 round they are the subordinate constituents. 

 In other words, there is interwound through 

 all Life a psychic factor, which has an imme- 

 diate connection with the physical element in 

 every particle, determining it from within, 

 and propelling it forward by organic evolu- 

 tion to the ultimate purpose and end of Life. 

 But there is also an inorganic evolution (as 

 above set forth) in which the psychic factor 

 rs certainly present and active (it is neces- 



