ON MATTEK AND FORCE. 51 



Looking at the great operations which go on 

 in the egg, he says we must agree with the 

 poet 



" Spiritus intus alit, totamque infusa per artus 

 Mens agitat molem." 



He carries us, in the idea of life, far beyond 

 cells, nuclei, and germinal granular matter, 

 even as far as flatulence, when he says, " Ali- 

 bique, etiam flatibus vitam quandam atque 

 ortum et interitum inesse, arbitrantur." 



He ends this chapter on the egg thus: 

 "Quibus rite pensitatig, propriam illi inesse 

 animam concludimus/' 



At the present time, the popular idea is, 

 that no distinction exists between the life, the 

 mind, and the soul of man; all are confused 

 together ; and all are thought to compose a 

 single immaterial spirit, which comes at birth 

 and goes at death, being perfectly separable 

 from the matter of which we are made. 



Thus, in the earliest ideas of all nations, and 

 probably of all individuals, no doubt whatever 

 exists as to the entire separability of the ideas 

 of ponderable matter and of vital force; and 

 the first stage of ideas in the biological sciences 

 is identically the same as the first stage in 



