Well, I admit that, too. Only I was merely suggesting that I see more definite order than I once did. A few years ago I could see nothing but disorder, chaos, the inexplicable clashing of forces. Of late I am not so sure. This matter of orthogenesis now; it appeals to me very much as demonstrating an intellectual if not a spiritual order, some great controlling force somewhere. I seem to see a definite tendency to order in things. Life has certainly built itself up through the ages in a very intelligent way indeed, don’t you think? BARRETT (_Loftily._) Ye-es, of course, only there have been many errors and conflicts there too--sudden stoppage of plans in various directions. MITCHELL True, as I was about to point out. SYPHERS (_Almost unconscious of interruption._) I admit that. I admit that. What I am getting at is this: all life, as we know it, is based on the cell--cell origination, cell multiplication, cell arrangement. That is an old story. Now here is something which is my own idea--it’s a mere theory, of course--that the whole thing may have been originated, somehow, somewhere else, worked out beforehand, as it were, in the brain of something or somebody and is now being orthogenetically or chemically directed from somewhere, being thrown on a screen, as it were, like a moving-picture, and we mere dot pictures, mere cell-built-up pictures, like the movies, only we are telegraphed or telautographed from somewhere else, like those dot pictures that are now made electrically, built up dot by dot, millions of them coming rapidly by wireless or wire and being thrown on a screen of some kind--ether, the elements--you know what I mean. You have seen the telautograph pictures I mean, of course? BARRETT Yes, of course. Very ingenious. Very ingenious. But how do you prove the origination of the cell in the fashion that you want? MITCHELL (_Aside._) A rather slow movie, I should say, considering the length of time it has taken to build it up. SYPHERS