And thirdly, it claims to have placed the universal matter itself in a new position for us, and to exhibit all forms of life as developed from it, through its own spontaneous motion.

Thus for the first time, beyond the reach of question, the entire sensible universe is brought within the scope of the physicist.

Everything that is, is matter moving.

Life itself is nothing but motion of an infinitely complex kind.

It is matter in its finest ferment.