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THE LIFE PRINCIPLE. 589<br />

tenanced in very high scientific quarters, and, therefore, they are happy<br />

to feel that they do not stand alone. Thus, Professor de Quatrefages<br />

writes<br />

It is very true that we do not know what life is; but no more do we know what<br />

the force is that set the stars in motion Living beings are heay>', and<br />

therefore subject to gravitation; they are the seat of numerous and various physicochemical<br />

phenomena which are indispensable to their existence, and which must<br />

be referred to the action of etherodynamy [electricity, heat, etc.]. But these phenomena<br />

are here manifested under the influence of another force<br />

Life<br />

is not antagonistic to the inanimate forces, but it governs and rules their action by<br />

its laws.*<br />

• The Human Species, pp. 10, 11.

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