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Logic II 37

What I mean by the ideas conferring existence upon the individual
members of the class is that it confers upon them
the power of working out results in this world, that it confers
upon them, that is to say, organic existence, or, in
one word, life. The existence of an individual man is a totally
different thing from the existence of the matter which at any
given instant happens to compose him, and which is incessantly
passing in and out. A man is a wave, and but not a vortex.
Even the existence of the vortex, though it does happen to be composed
contain while it lasts always of the same particles, is a very different thing from
the existence of these particles. Neither does the existence of wave
or vortex consist merely in the fact that something is true
of whatever particles compose them; although it is inseparably
bound up with that fact. Let me not be understood
as having proposing any new definitions of a vortex or and a wave
to [propose?]. What I mean is this. Take the a corpse: dissect
it , it is never more perfectly than it ever was dissected. Take out the whole
system of blood vessels entire, as we see them [in?]