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"higher correlative" whose coming is announced, 

 or is it a fiction of the mechanical imagination 

 — an adumbration of a phantom in that con- 

 stantly recurring dream about unity ? Because 

 we have experience that heat may assume the 

 form or mode of motion, light, magnetism, or 

 electricity, that therefore there are other modes 

 of force unknown, but which will certainly be 

 discovered some day, and that one of these is 

 the vital mode, is the reasoning we are expected 

 to accept. Correlation is the abracadabra of 

 the long prophecied, but still non-existent science 

 of mechanical biology. That the non-forming 

 correlatives of non-forming primary energy, 



\ heat, light, electricity, magnetism, chemical 

 action may have a yet undiscovered correlative 



\endowed with formative power cannot be denied, 

 but is it more probable than would be the 

 assertion that intelligence has been evolved 

 from stones, or that order has resulted from 

 chaos, or that design has been the necessary 

 consequence of conditions powerless to con- 

 dition ? 



Now let us place but a portion of one of the 

 lowest living forms under a high magnifying 

 power, and let us see if the force-correlation 



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