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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    saying more than we really mean; but if we said that all music was accompanied by vibration—at least whenever the music was interpreted or reproduced—we should be right enough. It would not necessarily be true of music while it was being com¬ posed, nor even when the composition was being read by an expert. Music can be conceived in the mind, and is not due to the vibration that has to be used to display it. Even so may a Master of chess dispense with the rearrangement of wooden pieces, which yet are needed when he plays with an amateur, and which can be moved by an agent in obedience to his words of command. So it may be said that all vital pro¬ cesses are accompanied by molecular re¬ arrangement ; and yet those processes may not be due to the rearrangement, which is employed for demonstration or realisation. It all depends on which is the primary fundamental essence—the life or the molecular process. Is the process initiated by life? or is life an epipheno- menon of the molecular operation? The
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