Note 9 — INTRODUCTION
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The biologist who used to expect to discover the source of life by dissection and analysis would be rather astonished at the modern tendency among scientific men to substitute doctrines of ‘energies’ for ‘atoms.’ As Dr. Putman has pointed out, the modern physicist scarcely feels the need of atoms for the world of his conception. We may even go a step further. ‘Energy’ is ‘immaterial,’ ‘consciousness’ is ‘immaterial.’ May they not accordingly have a common denominator?