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which should bring in sensation where there was no sensa- 
tion or power of sensation at the preceding step. It is 
because the things are utterly incomparable and incom- 
mensurable that we can only-conceive of sensation coming 
to matter from without, while life may be conceived a8 
merely a specific combination and co-ordination of the matter 
and the forces that compose the universe, and with which 
we are separately acquainted. We may admit with Professor 
Huxley that protoplasm is the “ matter of life” and the cause 
of organisation, but we cannot admit or conceive that pro- 
toplasm is the primary source of sensation and consciousness, . 
or that it can ever of itself become conscious in the same 
way as we may perhaps conceive that it may become alive. 
