Living matter consists in metabolism, and is consequently directly related to the nutritive substances which renew the elements necessary for continual redintegration.
The constant interchange of matter, namely, metabolism, constitutes undoubtedly a phenomenon peculiar to living matter, protoplasm; but protoplasm does not exist apart from living organisms.
They say: "The soil maintains life because it is living matter itself.
And I agree with them, and say all matter is living matter because it is permeated with electric life and energy and governed by electric law.
They may be stages in the elaboration or disintegration of protoplasm, and although they were at one time believed to occur only as products of living matter, are gradually being conquered by the synthetic chemist.
The explanation that serves for the evolution of living matter, the vehicle of life, will serve for the evolution of life.
Enzymes conform to all of these properties of catalysts, and are commonly defined as the "catalysts of living matter.
Again, living matter is continually undergoing a process of breaking down as a result of its energetic activities and of simultaneously making good this loss by the manufacture of new protoplasm out of simple food materials.
Does the method equally suffice when it is applied to living matter?
It was developed in the study of matter which we describe as non-living, and with non-living matter it has sufficed for the particular purposes of the physicist.
Of course, only a little corner of the universe has been explored, but in the study of non-living matter we have come to no impassable gulfs, no chasms across which we can not throw bridges of hypothesis.
Thus it will be declared, every leaf we see around us, every structure of the minutest insect, will bear witness to the truth of the "great guess" of the greatest of naturalists concerning the memory of living matter.
Professor Huxley writes:-- "It is a widely received notion that the energies of living matter have a tendency to decline and finally disappear, and that the death of the body as a whole is a necessary correlate of its life.
The changes in question are quite peculiar to living matter; they occur in all living matter, but in living matter only.
But physical evolutionists who persist in attributing all the phenomena of living beings to physical agencies only, ignore the most important changes occurring in every form of living matter.
Living matter, as we know it, notwithstanding its capacity for variation, is conditioned within very narrow limits as to physical surroundings.
The researches of the chemist have revealed a no less striking uniformity of material composition in living matter.
It is this: we do not find peculiar kinds of atoms which occur exclusively in living matter; the materials are exactly the same as those of the outer world.
They are unitary masses of living matter with a peculiar central body or nucleus, and every tissue of every living thing is composed of them.
These distinctive properties of living matter are-- The properties of living matter.
Professor Huxley writes:- "It is a widely received notion that the energies of living matter have a tendency to decline and finally disappear, and that the death of the body as a whole is a necessary correlate of its life.
Note that its diet is of inorganic or non-living matter.
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