Neither Chemical Nor Magnetic
Dr. William Thompeon, professor of physfotogy in the rnivci-sit y of tin City of New York. says: "All the analogies oí physiology are qaite consisH at with Mr. Edtson's views. The It tafces ti) semd a messagi trom the farain t the tnuacle which U to work baa been measured. Thereforc we owii wc have &ome deünite rterve torce with which to draw. What that inerve forcé is we do nol knuiv. Wo knew what it is not. Il is not chcmic.al; it ia not magnetlc, Tlhere is much tkai is veay sníSíesti've with regard to Mr. Ediso'n'n proposdtioa tliat all matter is eonscious. Man we fcnaw la aot a simple organisni. He iiidulfycs i;i what physioligiata cali 'consciöus and subconscioua cenbration.' We are Dleased to1 cali this subconsclouB cepebratlon automa tic. Itnl. althoiiiïh i.ur hlgher cousciou.sm-ss is unaware (A what our lower coiiscimisn. 'ss is this does not alter the iact that the latter m.iy be just as conscio'us as the fornv.'v, although a w-all keeps the two centers of voiitiou ïrom exelianglng coniiiler.cis. "lf, tlien, we admii this nnicli. the hypothesis that each individual protioplaam ml each individual atom coatritouting that protoplasm is conscious is (urtainly quite rea sonable, although fro'm the iMjint oí view of piiysiology there ís no life properly so called without protoplasm."
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