48 Life and Matter [chap. m. 



tion for condensation, a dislike of strain ; they 

 strive after the one and struggle against the 

 other" (p. 78). 



My desire is to criticise politely, and hence 

 I refrain from characterising this sentence as 

 a physicist should. 



" Every shade of inclination, from complete 

 indifference to the fiercest passion, is exemplified 

 in the chemical relation of the various elements 

 towards each other " (p. 79). 



" On those phenomena we base our conviction 

 that even the atom is not without a rudimentary 

 form of sensation and will, or, as it is better 

 expressed, of feeling (^esthesis) and inclination 

 (tropesis) that is, a universal c soul ' of the simplest 

 character " (p. 80). 



" I gave the outlines of cellular psychology in 

 1866 in my paper on c Cell-souls and Soul-cells 



(p- 63). 



Thus, then, in order to explain life and 

 mind and consciousness by means of matter, 

 all that is done is to assume that matter 

 possesses these unexplained attributes. 



What the full meaning of that may be, 

 and whether there be any philosophic justi- 

 fication for any such idea, is a matter on 



