26 THE MYSTERY OF LIFE. 



expressions of an opinion against physical 

 force views, and the coercive persuasion em- 

 ployed in teaching molecular physics, tend to 

 prevent free discussion, and enforce submission 

 to a form of intolerance which is exhibited in 

 the scientific writing's G f more than one member 

 of the new school. 



But surely it is very significant that every 

 particle of living matter, of every sort known, 

 should manifest phenomena of a particular kind 

 —that is, should appropriate certain matters, 

 and alter these, and grow and multiply by di- 

 vision, while no form of non-living matter has 

 been discovered which exhibits any like phe- 

 nomena. It is said such matter will be obtained 

 from the non-living some day, and that the view 

 that non-living matter may do these things 

 under ''certain conditions" not yet found out, is 

 in harmony with the " tendency of modern 

 thought." It is said that we are on the eve of 

 discovering how to make living things from 

 non-living matter — nay, that in a few instances 

 this had actually been done. But it is very 

 remarkable that the drawings of the supposed 

 new organisms said to be formed direct from the 

 non-living, without parentage, so closely resemble 



