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MOST readers of NATURE seek enlightenment on “The Mystery of Life as Interpreted by Science”; but whether they will find it in the little book which Mr. R. D. Taylor presents under this title is open to question. All life is psychic in its essential being, and every atom is “a psychic” endowed with super-consciousness defined as native cognition, determinative and directive, inbred in the structure of every atomic centre. This, super-consciousness is the law of its being. In accordance with this law every atom radiates attractional emanations into the related atom of next lower radial potency, and coincidently receives radiations from the next higher. The “radial-attractional law of gravitation,” which is not only the act of tending towards a centre, but is also coincidently the act of developing towards a source (and thus includes all human aspirations), is the theme of a book the metaphysical implications of which call for no further notice here.
The Mystery of Life as Interpreted by Science.
R. D.
Taylor
By. Pp. 176. (London and Felling-on-Tyne: The Walter Scott Publishing Co., Ltd., 1919.) Price 3s. 6d. net.
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The Mystery of Life as Interpreted by Science . Nature 106, 499 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106499c0
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