Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
But although life is not energy, any more than it is matter, yet it directs energy and thereby controls arrangements of matter.
Life creates conditions conducive to life.
According to the Law of Biogenesis, life arises only from preexisting life.
Life is the division of human cells, a process which begins at conception.
Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.
The manner in which life constructs itself must be dealing with some other principle which we've failed to identify.
Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations.
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.