Making of man : a study in evolution / by Sir Oliver Lodge.

  • Oliver Lodge
Date:
1924
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    giant stars, we see some of the energy of atoms converted before our eyes into light and heat. The light we see from them is believed to be only the residual or escaping portion of the great turmoil of conversion within. Even in our own Sun the process is going on, though not with the same violence as in the giant stars; and the heat of the Sun, on which we are every day dependent, is but the outcome of the con¬ version of Matter into Energy. Hence we can begin to speculate on the probability that herein lies the clue to the association of Life and Mind with Matter, that the connection is not direct but indirect. The instinct of Biologists has always led them to assume that Life and Mind must have some kind of material vehicle; that is to say, some close connection with what we otherwise know of as the material Universe. But the material Universe consists not of Matter alone, but of Light, Electricity, and Ether as well. Biologists have been liable to assume, and many do assume to this day, that the material vehicle must be formed of Matter. And some have even supposed that Life and Mind are functions of Matter. But that is only because they