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The Second Lesson: Omnipresent Life.723
There is nothing dead. There is no transformation of “dead matter” into live
plant matter, and then into live animal matter. The chemicals are alive, and
from chemical to man’s body there is but a continuous change of shape and
form of living matter. Any man’s body, decomposing, is again resolved into
chemicals, and the chain begins over again. Merely changes in living forms—
that’s all, so far as the bodies are concerned.
Nature furnishes us with many examples of this presence of life in the
inorganic world. We have but to look around to see the truth of the statement
that All is Alive. There is that which is known as the “fatigue of elasticity” in
metals. Razors get tired, and require a rest. Tuning forks lose their powers
of vibration, to a degree, and have to be given a vacation. ‘Machinery in
mills and manufactories needs an occasional day off. Metals are subject to
disease and infection, and have been poisoned and restored by antidotes.
Window glass, especially stained glass, is subject to a disease spreading from
pane to pane.
Men accustomed to handling and using tools and machinery naturally
drop into the habit of speaking of these things as if they were alive. They
seem to recognize the presence of “feeling” in tools or machine, and
to perceive in each a sort of “character” or personality, which must be
respected, humored, or coaxed in order to get the best results.
Perhaps the most valuable testimony along these lines, and which goes
very far toward proving the centuries-old theories of the Yogis regarding
Omnipresent Life, comes from Prof. J. Chunder Bose, of the Calcutta
University, a Hindu educated in the English Universities, under the best
teachers, and who is now a leading scientific authority in the western world,
tie has given to the world some very valuable scientific information along
these lines in his book entitled “Response in the Living and Non-living,” which
has caused the widest comment and created the greatest interest among
the highest scientific authorities. His experiments along the lines of the
gathering of evidence of life in the inorganic forms have revolutionized the