Life And Matter a Criticism of Professor Haeckels Riddle of the Universe
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P. 21); for, though they alter the quantity of energy no whit, and though they merely utilise available energy like any other machine, live things are able to direct inorganic terrestrial energy along new and special paths, so as to achieve results which without such living agency could not have occurred e. G. , forests, ant-hills, birds' nests, Forth bridge, sonatas, cathedrals.
I have never taught, nor for a moment thought, that "vital force is akin to physical force, but that it needs guidan...ce" (p. 747); the phrase sounds to me nonsense. I perceive, not as a theory, but as a fact, that life is itself a. Guiding principle, a control- Haeckel's Conjectural Philosophy 117 ling agency ; i. E. , that a live animal or plant can and does guide or influence the elements of inorganic nature. The fact of an organism's possessing life enables it to build up material into many notable forms, oak, eagle, man, which material aggregates last until they are abandoned by the guiding prin- ciple, when they more or less speedily fall into decay, or become resolved into their elements, until utilised by a fresh incarnation ; and hence I say that whatever life is or is not, it is certainly this : it is a guiding and controlling entity which reacts upon our world according to laws so partially known that we have to say they are practically unknown, and therefore appear in some respects mysterious.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
P. 21); for, though they alter the quantity of energy no whit, and though they merely utilise available energy like any other machine, live things are able to direct inorganic terrestrial energy along new and special paths, so as to achieve results which without such living agency could not have occurred e. G. , forests, ant-hills, birds' nests, Forth bridge, sonatas, cathedrals.
I have never taught, nor for a moment thought, that "vital force is akin to physical force, but that it needs guidan...ce" (p. 747); the phrase sounds to me nonsense. I perceive, not as a theory, but as a fact, that life is itself a. Guiding principle, a control- Haeckel's Conjectural Philosophy 117 ling agency ; i. E. , that a live animal or plant can and does guide or influence the elements of inorganic nature. The fact of an organism's possessing life enables it to build up material into many notable forms, oak, eagle, man, which material aggregates last until they are abandoned by the guiding prin- ciple, when they more or less speedily fall into decay, or become resolved into their elements, until utilised by a fresh incarnation ; and hence I say that whatever life is or is not, it is certainly this : it is a guiding and controlling entity which reacts upon our world according to laws so partially known that we have to say they are practically unknown, and therefore appear in some respects mysterious.
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