CHAPTER VIII 



HYPOTHESIS AND ANALOGIES 

 CONCERNING LIFE 



The view concerning Life which I have 



endeavoured to express is that it is neither 



matter nor energy, nor even a function of 



matter or of energy, but is something 



belonging to a different category ; that by 



some means at present unknown it is able to 



interact with the material world for a time, 



but that it can also exist in some sense 



independently ; although in that condition 



of existence it is by no means apprehensible 



by our senses. It is dependent on matter 



for its phenomenal appearance for its 



manifestation to us here and now, and for 



all its terrestrial activities ; but otherwise, 



I conceive that it is independent, that its 



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