Evolution and creation / by Sir Oliver Lodge.

  • Oliver Lodge
Date:
1930
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Credit: Evolution and creation / by Sir Oliver Lodge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Personality is of that order, and accord¬ ingly that personality or character does not go out of existence, but is permanent. Here however we are entering on an argumentative field, where our footing is less secure. Another thing of which conservation, and therefore persistence, is suspected, is Life. But there is as yet no certainty in surmises concerning the nature of Life, nor is there as yet any final and crucial discrimination between them. Men of science appear at present uncertain, whether Life is an actual non-physical constant entity which interacts with the material frame of things for a time and then evaporates whence it came,—which is one hypothesis; or whether it is a variable something which actually increases in amount under favourable circumstances,— as tested by its interaction with Matter. Or, again, whether it is only a fluctuating and indefinite summary or appearance, the outcome of a certain type of molecular organisation, so that when an organism has attained the right stage of develop¬ ment the phenomenon called Life makes
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