CHANGING IDENTITIES 



everything pertaining to that material is also simi- 

 lar. (Prop. XVIII, B. 1.) 



Therefore, the difference between force, act- 

 ing on void matter, and force acting on organized 

 matter, is the result of difference between the two. 

 And since organized matter and void matter are 

 alike composed of primary spheres, the difference 

 between them must consist in the organization 

 which holds together the primary spheres constitut- 

 ing material substance in the fixed regularity of a 

 peculiar, stable identical form. 



And that which compels the organization is life. 

 And that life is not inherent in matter (Prop. XI, 

 B. 1). Neither is that life a primary identity, 

 'for the life extends and grows with the growing 

 form, and is the necessary result of that form. 



Therefore, everything which has organization, or 

 form, is endowed with life, and when that life is 

 withdrawn the material that composed the form 

 must return whence it came. 



Then, if the simplest form of organization, the 

 atom, has an identical life because of its identical 

 organization, the human body also must have an 

 identical life because of its identical organization. 



But the organization of the atom does not em- 

 brace the organization of the human body, for that 

 is composed of innumerable atoms. And, as the 

 organization of the human body is more complex 

 and higher than that of the atom, so is the life of 

 the human body higher than the life of the atom. 

 Yet in each is life. 



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