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•directive government, as one may call it. Vitality co-ordinates in 

 a way that mere force never does. Force is not governing or 

 directive. Another condition is what I think I may call the 

 unique property of vitalism. That was alluded to the other day 

 by Professor Japp in his address before the British Association in 

 speaking of bodies known as Enanatiomorphs. He shows that 

 vitalism nearly always produces or selects one kind of these 

 Enanatiomorphs witboat the other kind, and that no other force 

 or powei- in nature can do this. There is, therefore, in vitalism 

 an uniformity — ^a directive government — and there is intrans- 

 mutability to an3'thiug else. The suggestion, I believe, was let 

 fall before the Victoria Institute some time ago by our bouoored 

 President that life was the result of the action of spirit. We 

 know that matter cannot produce force any more than it can 

 produce life. It is spirit from Avhich force jsroceeds — it is 

 spirit from which life proceeds. This is in harmony with 

 the declaration in the Word of God where the spirit and life 

 are associated together in such expressions as " the spirit giveth 

 bfe." 



Mr. TucKWELL. — I am afraid that I have nothing of importance 

 to contribute to the discussion, but I should much like that we 

 should have a little more of it. One would like if possible to have 

 some light on such a question as this — What is the relation 

 between individual bioplasm and living organisms 'r A question of 

 profound difficulty and, I am quite sure, one of very great import- 

 ance indeed. The gentleman who first spoke seemed — I do not 

 know whether I misunderstood him — to suggest that life, i.e., I 

 presume, bioplasm has originated in material substances aided by 

 motion, or something of that kind. 



Dr. Shettle. — Pardon me for interrupting you — but my remark 

 was that bioplasm was a created thing — created, I should say, by 

 the spirit and power of God, and in no other way, and is maintained 

 by His power now, just as much in the vegetable as in the 

 animal. 



Mr. TuCKWELL. — I am glad to have any misapprehension removed. 

 I rather understood Dr. Shettle to refer to motion as having 

 something to do with it, or being a manifest cause of the production 

 of bioplasm. There must be a degree of heat that is destructive 

 to bioplasm. 



Professor Lionel Beale. — Oh, yes ; certainly — a very mild 

 degree. 



Mr. TuCKWELL. — Then in that case it would be impossible in the 



