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of air as that it should manufacture it out of food. All the arguments which, I have used in the one case will apply in the other. If vital power cannot be received by the body in the form of potential energy in food, and converted into life by functional action, then it cannot be received in the form of electrical or other energy from the atmosphere, and converted into work-power by emotional action. It must, therefore, be received directly as vital power, for the body is not a generator or transformer of energy. When the body receives life it must receive life; it cannot receive something else which is to be converted into life, for this would make life to be its own creator, the effect becoming its own cause.
Therefore, life is not drawn from the atmosphere, for the atmosphere is a compound of dead gases, It it not drawn from the earth, for the earth is dead mineral, vegetable and animal matter. There are forms of potential and kinetic energy in both earth and air-heat and electricity, for instance --- but as I have shown you, these are not life, and it is not mechanically possible for the body to convert them into life. If there is life in the air it must be there is life, and not as something else; and it must be in the air, not of the air. If there is vital power in the earth, it must be there as life, and not as some other form of force; it must be a force
