possible, but a decisive answer we cannot give. Our conviction is that God does not interfere to help man either in the transition itself or in a future life in any other way than he does here in time. Certainly the clerical orthodoxy has rightly understood the divine guidance in its teaching of God’s general providence, comprising the whole creation, His special providence in regard to mankind, and His most particular providence, limited to the faithful; that is, to those that let themselves be governed by the divine will. Critical experience has never discovered any exterior, occasional interference, which moreover is utterly impossible. God is present and active in the eternal and unchangeable laws of nature and spirit. Sin and punishment, virtue and reward, are connected with each other as reason and conclusion, cause and effect. Man is himself the cause of his acts and they bring their inevitable consequences. The man therefore who consciously and purposely distorts his own natural evolution or that of others stands before himself and before his fellow men burdened with a terrible responsibility. FOOTNOTES [1] The latest researches in regard to the newly discovered corpuscles show that these “bodies” have a mass proportional to the square of their velocity, thus forcing us to conclude that they at rest have no mass. Perhaps, therefore, the ancient dualistic world of matter and force is merging into a larger unity where life directs force to serve its specific purposes.—Translator’s note. [2] Chemists understand that the so-called native iron, found, for instance, in Greenland, forms no real exception more than the chemical reactions that absorb heat form exceptions to the general law that chemical processes set heat free, because if the necessary simultaneous reactions are taken into account, all the reactions as a whole show a surplus of heat.—Translator’s note. [3] Björklund might here properly have referred to his previous demonstration of the fact that life has no roots in time, consequently is independent of this principle—i. e., immortal.—Translator’s note. INDEX Absolute organism, the, 187. Achilles, 14. Activity, incitement to, 154. Adaptation, 149. Affinity, 97. Agni, the elementary, 24. Annihilation contrary to nature, 1, 168. Army organization, 159f. Art and organic matter, 107, 111, 119f. Ask and Embla, 21. Athens, 9. Bacteria, 57. Belief in future life, 2. Biology and the spiritual body, 192. Björklund, Johan Gustaf, VII. Body, importance of the, 18. Boström, Christofer Jacob, 174, 194. Burial ceremonies, 9, 20. Büchner, 48f, 56, 62, 69, 73, 75, 83. Causality, 118, 119. Cause, sufficient, 117. Cells, living units, 27, 29; man, a community of, 30; a system of, 142. Chemical reactions, 76, 82. Chinese civilization, 10; death-cultus, 11. Chlorophyll, 115.