348 T'KOFESSOi; J.IONKL S. B1:ALK, P.K.S., ON' 



on tlio Hubject I have l)i'oiii;lit fovwai-d, it will l)r a ploasuvo 

 to me to enter into it; and. as I have previously remarked 

 many times, if it be shown I am wrong, I wonhl give up my 

 views. But I do not mean to do so unless it be proved that 

 my views are erroneous. T am ready to be beaten ; I am 

 getting old and do not )nind. l^ut above all things it is most 

 important the question of vitality should be settled, and soon 

 — ii' it can be settled. 



Allow me now to break off for to-day, aiid I trust enter 

 upon discussion, and I feel sure the members of the Institute 

 Avill be glad to hear any observations members and visitors 

 Avill be kind encmgh to offer on this widely interesting 

 subject. (Ap})lause.) 



Dr. Shetti.e. — I am mucli obliged to J)r. Beale for giving ns 

 this able address on his views of ]ife, and also for liis kiud promise 

 to further investigate the matter. 



1 quite concur with Dr. Beale as to the origin of life — in fact, 

 life is sometliing that has been handed down from the very first 

 to now; but I cannot accord with his view that life is not physical. 

 I think it is just as much physical as any other creation of the 

 Almighty's. 



Now I Avonld just state the points on which I think the dis- 

 cussion might be opened Avith profit. 



(1) My point is that matter, in whatever form it Avas created, 



was the direct outcome of the Creator's Divine power — so 

 that I do not take animal life away from the poAver of 

 God. I entirely concur in that. 



(2) Animal life in man is the highest development of that 



Divine poAver. 



(8) The earth and the celestial bodies in general all show that 

 the first motion (of life) existed in the form of axial 

 rotation in Avhich the central and centrifugal forms of 

 force were essentially marked. D}*. Beale has commented 

 in his hook on the central and centrifugal forces as hiiA'ing 

 the poAver of life as distinct from other tilings. 



(4) f he shape of the human blood corpuscles, which are the 

 agents by which animal life is carried on, shoAvs that 

 they have been formed and have acquired their magnetic 



