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[ 14 ) which is known as life. Just as people say, "the king is victorious". though, in point of faci, it is the commander-in-chief who has won the victory, even so it is force or energy which is called life though the functions of life are performed by air. III Thał dislinguished scientisi, ihe lale Ramondra Sundar Trivedi, says in his book named “Jijnasa" : “Man’s body is certainly mailer; but it is living maller. li is the harmony or collective aggregate of a number of forces, The malorialisi does not admit the existence of more things ihan one. Thai one thing is mailer—and force or molion is the law o malter. Now, this forgo or molion manifesls ilsels in various forms—as a current or onward-following slream, as a wave or ripple playing back upon itself, or as an eddy. And, according io the various forms it assumes, if manifesis itself—now as electricity, now us magnetism, now as light, now as chemical action and now as Life. Life is a Cornbination of many forces, and ils course is intricałe and hard for us to undersland. Nay, we cannot undersland the nature of GVEI) OING of ihese forms of motion. The apple falls io the ground : but why 2 The oxygen atom flies naturally lowards the alom of hydrogen : but why ? It is difficult