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" during which the matter progresses from an indefi- 

 nite, incoherent homogeneity " (in plain language, an 

 intimate, intricate, undistinguishable mixedness of 

 like with unlike through the mass), " towards a more 

 definite, more coherent heterogeneity" (in plain 

 language like particles concentrated by themselves 

 and therefore en masse distinctly different from 

 the other masses formed by similar concentrations 

 of other kinds of particles by themselves). 



ORIGIN OF LIFE 



According to the order of sequences in this process 

 of evolution, and according to the axiomatic truth 

 that the originally undifferentiated must be the 

 antecedent of the differentiated; the formation of 

 masses of any particular kind of matter must 

 always precede the orderly arrangement of its 

 particles in any kind of concentrations, such as 

 crystals, granules, clusters, cells, histoblasts, nuclei, 

 etc. The difference in time may, however, be very 

 small, as, for instance, between the formation of a 

 saturated solution and the beginning of crystalliza- 

 tion. Applying this rule to the materials and 

 phenomena of life, it follows that the formation 

 of protoplasmic masses must have preceded the 

 formation of the most primitive living units, such as 

 histoblasts, not to mention the more complex and 

 therefore later concentration, such as cells and their 

 varying component parts, nuclei, nucleoli, etc. 



Before these wonderfully complex protoplasmic 



