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 bodies, or larger. The sixth type is composed of the happenings on an infinitesimal scale, disclosed by the minute analysis of modern physics.

Now all these fanctionings of Nature influence each other, require each other, and lead on to each other. The list has purposely been made soughly, without any scientific pretension. The sharp-cut scientific classifications are essential for scientife method, but they are dangerous for philosophy. Such classification hides the truth that the different modes of natural existence shade off into each other. Theres the animal life with its central direction of a society of celis, there is the vegetabie life with its organized republic of cells, there is the cell life with its organized republic of molecules, there is the large-scale inorganic society of molecules with its passive acceptance of necessities derived from spatial relations, there is the infra-molecular activity which has lost all