62 THE MYSTERY OF LIFE. 



machinery has been formed by force, so that 

 we must assume that there is not one new cor- 

 relative of motion, life, to be discovered and 

 produced anew in the laboratory ; but others, of 

 which mind takes the precedence. For the 

 transformation of primary energy into mind, 

 life is necessary, for life invariably precedes 

 mind. Life may be manifested without mind, 

 but the manifestation of mind without life is im- 

 possible, even in the conception of the physicist. 



It is in the present state of knowledge 

 simply astounding, that reasonable people 

 should accept the dogma that life is a correla- 

 tive of heat. There is not more than the 

 shadow of foundation for such a view. But that 

 mind should also be received as another corre- 

 late, only proves that few persons think about 

 the mental actions going on in their own or- 

 ganisms, and that dogmatic assertion of one 

 kind is as powerful to influence them as was 

 that of another kind to mislead their fore- 

 fathers. 



Those who do not go quite so far, but argue 

 concerning the possibility of life being a corre- 

 late of ordinary force, should bear in mind that 

 nothing can result from the mere assertion that 



