26 THE MYSTERY OF LIFE. 



expressions of an opinion against physical 

 force views, and the coercive persuasion em- 

 ployed in teaching molecular physics, tend to 

 prevent free discussion, and enforce submission 

 to a form of intolerance which is exhibited in 

 the scientific writings of more than one member 

 of the new school. 



But surely it is very significant that every 

 particle of living matter, of every sort known, 

 should manifest phenomena of a particular kind 

 that is, should appropriate certain matters, 

 and alter these, and grow and multiply by di- 

 vision, while no form of non-living matter has 

 been discovered which exhibits any like phe- 

 nomena. It is said such matter will be obtained 

 from the non-living some day, and that the view 

 that non-living matter may do these things 

 under " certain conditions" not yet foimd oiit, is 

 in harmony with the " tendency of modern 

 thought." It is said that we are on the eve of 

 discovering how to make living things from 

 non-living matter nay, that in a few instances 

 this had actually been done. But it is very 

 remarkable that the drawings of the supposed 

 new organisms said to be formed direct from the 

 non-living, without parentage, so closely resemble 



