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and comes from one source. It is, therefore, in absurdity to say that the work-power of the body is the, result of the performance of its internal digestive or other functions.
Life is the cause of all function„ including the digestion of food, and cannot be the result of that which it causes. We are therefore driven to the conclusion that the body receives its power from some external source. It certainly expends energy, we have seen that it does not and cannot generate this energy; it must, occasionally, be charged anew, And when we witness the phenomena of sleep we conclude that we are witnessing the vitalizing procees; the sleeping organism is being charged with power.
But where does the power come from? Oxygen, as we have seen, is necessary to the charging process, but oxygen is not life. It is a chemical element indispensable to functional action, and to the operations of vital power, but it is not life. Nor does it appear that there is any possible combination. or recombination of the elements of the atmosphere with those of the body which can produce life. For if life be drawn by chemical processes from atmospheric air, it can only be done by internal functional processes:, and we have seen that it is a mechanical impossibility that life should be the result of functional action. It is as impossible that the body should manufacture life out
