ABSTRACT
Living cannot be interpreted in terms of materio-dynamics. Some other cosmic principle is at work not included in and not defined by the laws of matter or of radiation, however “deep the waters” into which the study of these have led. “The universe can be best pictured, although still very imperfectly and inadequately, as consisting of pure thought, the thought of what, for want of a wider word, we must describe as a mathematical thinker”. 1 Possible though it is to conceive of thought without personal attributes, that concept is nevertheless impossible divorced from the quality of livingness. But this picture does not disclose to us the nature of the livingness behind thought; it only implies that when the laws of Living are disclosed they may demand yet one more co-ordinate on our graphs and yet another mathematic even more intricate than the last.
