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add to the stock of any known form of 

 energy, nor does death affect the sum of 

 energy in any known way. 



(b) That life is something outside the 

 scheme of mechanics outside the categories 

 of matter and energy ; though it can never- 

 theless control or direct material forces 

 timing them and determining their place 

 of application, subject always to the laws 

 of energy and all other mechanical laws ; 

 supplementing or accompanying these laws, 

 therefore, but contradicting or traversing 

 them no whit. 



This second answer I hold to be true ; 

 but in order to admit its truth we must 

 recognise that force can be exerted and 

 energy directed, by suitable adjustment of 

 existing energy, without any introduction 

 of energy from without ; in other words, 

 that the energy of operations automatically 

 going on in any active region of the universe 

 any region where transformation and trans- 

 ference of energy are continuously occurring 

 whether life be present or not can be 

 guided along paths that it would not 



