UNDER THE APPLE-TREES 
of the wind. The organism is built up by the same 
chemical reactions that would pull it down; its 
strength is the strength of the forces it has over- 
come. Life has no capital but that which it draws 
from the non-living. The modus operandi of this 
drawing science may analyze and explain, but the 
secret of life itself — that impulse which lifts this 
wave of matter up into these myriads of living 
forms — is beyond the reach of scientific analysis. 
Our breathing and drinking, I have said, are on 
the principle of the bellows, but the bellows implies 
the man working it. So our breathing implies the 
life-principle working the respiratory apparatus; 
but working from within, not from without, sus- 
taining a vital and not merely a mechanical relation 
to it. Of this we have no parallel in our mechanical 
contrivances. The nearest we can come to it is in 
the electromagnetic world, where the active and 
potent principle is inseparable from the ponderable 
body which it animates. 
A man may repeat the type of character of his 
father or grandfather — the main course of his life 
may be determined by his unconscious inheritances, 
or by his race, and the nation of which he forms 
a part, and yet have the utmost sense of freedom, 
because these things do not act as external or for- 
eign forces, but form the body and substance of 
his inmost personality; his identity is one with 
them. 
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