The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-23

Intellect Ia only tool with which we ara
able to perceive anc ,andle t---lgs useful e
to our ordinary existence. Physical science.
as we understand It. is similarly only a 4
system of examining and naming the things
that are cut out in life. Even II science s
could create the whole solar system It
would not have created life, for that. as I 4
have said. existed endlesely before the
solar system. So far the most startling
achievements which science has made In
the direction of creating life are only APP
parent creations OF the waste products OF
life, and it is doubtful II these are what
they seem
We must go to philosophy to explain
life for science entirely fails to do so.
Science works with the intellect, but
the life movement Is beyond the intellect
which is created by it.
Life Is creative evolution, and is free to-
evolve as 1t Wills. Evolution is the origi.
nal impulse of l.fe Continuity Is of the
essence of life and reality. Science sees
life as succession OF states. but that 10
because that Is the only vision possible
with the instruments 1t uses.
Science is like the kinematograph which
but we know that the action is not really
a succession of pictures. SO by intuition.
which Is above intellect, we can see II we
will into the truth behind the material
picture Of the world.
There Is faculty of seeing which is
immanent In the faculty of acting. and
which springs up by the twisting Of the
will on itself, when action is turned into
knowledge. like heat so to say, into light
Consciousness l have defined as mo-
mentary spark flying up from the friction
OF real actions against possible actions
1t is the life force that makes matter or
ganic that is the spring OF its growth,
whether OF tho unconscious and merely
material or OF tho conscious and what we
call the mental. This gives us forms that
function, that have a specific personal
activity from the lowly amoeba to man.
with his highly developed and still devel'
oping organism such Terms nave never
been produced by mechanical means; we
may presume-though. CT course. we can
not demonstrate--thatt they never will be-
1t is not reasonable to believe that
science will ever create living being by
organizing II we watch 1t as We find It
proceeding in nature, seems not to re-
semble. but to be the very opposite OF that
OF manufacture. manufacture Is effected
by the putting together of materials, or
ganization by continual separations. by the
repeated breaking up of cells The former
works from circumference to the centre.
the latter from the centre to the circunl-
ference. The material in the former Is
what gives the result fits character; the
material In the latter Is something to be
diverted. It is an obstacle to be turned
Life is constant springing upward.
while the characteristic of inanimate mat.
ter ia to be always falling down. The
vision we have OF the material world is
that OF weight which falls, but all our
analyses show us in life an effort to re-.
mount the incline that matter descends.
Out OF the effort made by life, the reality
which ascends, to overcome or at least to
suspend the downward rush OF matter
springs the tangible and visible universe
Now, we have seen shat the life force
has constant tendency to split up, but
the tendency to individualze is opposed
and at the same time completed by an
antagonistic and Complementary tendency
10 associate. The evolution OF being in
his double direction Is due to the very
nature OF life. Thus society, as soon "a
formed tends to melt the associated in.
dividuals into a new organism, so as to
become part and parcel OF a new associa.
ton. Behind the individual will wa
divine the race will and behind that tho
original source of life.