14 Natural Salvation. 



For here it is significant to note the reversion of 

 scientific opinion from the extremes of the dynamic 

 hypothesis of pure force, toward the Newtonian idea. 

 Light and also heat and electricity are not only dynamic, 

 but material. Force, so far as we know it, is always 

 associated with an efflux of matter. 



The method by which this continuous passage of non- 

 living into living matter is efifected, is association and 

 contact with previously existing living matter. The 

 non-living must be infused into the living matter ere the 

 non-living can be re-vitalized. 



The intimate impulse which accomplishes this vast 

 transfiguration seems to be a subjective one, resident in the 

 "protoplasm" itself, or, in other words, in the matter 

 which is, for the passing hour, in the living condition, 

 and which sinks down from' that living condition, while in 

 the act of raising up non-living matter to its own level. 

 The impulse, or working energy, is apparently a trans- 

 gression of subjective sentience into matter-moving power 

 or motion, effected at a great depth of atomicity, on that 

 low plane where particles are able to move in response 

 to a primarily sentient property which they universally 

 possess. 



It is from this low plane, or condition of tenuity, that 

 " protoplasm " is built up, and sets forth in its wonderful 

 career. On the earth as we now inhabit it, life struggles 

 upward from this deep-lying, sentient plane of matter in 



