>The atoms, themselves almost incon- ceivable, operate upon one another in the work- ings of these forces. The pollen from the flower finds its way to another, miles away, and fecundates it, as Schmid's father, born in Germany, found his mother, born in Australia, to the seemingly unimportant end that Schmid should come to be. Surely those ancients were not far wrong in deeming the atoms 'themselves endowed with conscious intelligence. There is life in everything and everywhere, and no life without love. A s a man lies with a woman t o perpetuate their kind, so do all things, infini- tesimal and vast, through Nature, bed with each other. The phallus is a mightier symbol than the virtuous wot of. I t is found even in the Cross. The sciences are a study of the univer- sal lust. Flower fecundates flower, though one sends its seeds t o another on the wings of a wandering and uncertain bee. There is a rain of life between the planets. Collisions scatter world-fragments in the far furrows of space, and the fragments are gathered up by other planets and life transferred to them from sys- tems that have ceased to be. I n mathematics, numbers cohabit, and the results are glimpses of the secrets of Infinity.