They had done so much, explained so much, could they not explain all?
Surely, I thought, the one safe ground is that of experiment, and the remembered agony of doubt made me very slow to believe where I could not prove.

So I was fain to regard life as an attribute, and this again strengthened the Atheistic position.
"Scientifically regarded, life is not an entity but a property; it is not a mode of existence, but a characteristic of certain modes.

Life is the result of an arrangement of matter, and when rearrangement occurs the former result can no longer be present; we call the result of the changed arrangement death.

Life and death are two convenient words for expressing the general outcome of two arrangements of matter, one of which is always found to precede the other."[9] And then, having resorted to chemistry for one illustration, I took another from one of those striking and easily grasped analogies, facility for seeing and presenting which has ever been one of the secrets of my success as a propagandist.

Like pictures, they impress the mind of the hearer with a vivid sense of reality.