Matter moves, but Ether is strained.

The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must be attributed in the best cases physiologically to the medium, intellectually to the control.

There is a conservation of matter and of energy, there may be a conservation of life; or if not of life, of something which transcends life.

A fish probably has no means of apprehending the existence of water; it is too deeply immersed in it.

Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held impossible do actually occur.

But although life is not energy, any more than it is matter, yet it directs energy and thereby controls arrangements of matter.

Life must be considered sui generis; it is not a form of energy, nor can it be expressed in terms of something else.