But there remains--consciousness!" "That," he said, "I cannot understand.

Ventnor spoke of--how did he put it ?--a group consciousness, operating in our sphere and in spheres above and below ours, with senses known and unknown.

I got--glimpses--Goodwin, but I cannot understand." "We have agreed for reasons that seem sufficient to us to call these Things metallic, Dick," I replied.

"But that does not necessarily mean that they are composed of any metal that we know.

Nevertheless, being metal, they must be of crystalline structure.
"As Gregory has pointed out, crystals and what we call living matter had an equal start in the first essentials of life.