Life (n.) is a current sent through matter, so that there are no things, only actions.
Life (n.) is a struggle against entropy.
Life (n.) is not a mere heading under which all living beings are inscribed, rather it is a visible current that has taken rise... this current of life, traversing the bodies it has organized one after another from generation to generation and divided amongst species without losing anything of its force, rather intensifying in proportion to its advance.
Life (n.) is no more made-up of physico-chemical elements than a curve is composed of a series of straight lines. only views taken by fluid mind which imagines stops at various moments
Life's (n.) opposite is matter; at every stage, life has had to fight with the inertia of its vehicle.
Life (n.) is more than its machinery; it is a power that can grow, that can restore itself, that can mould some measure of environing circumstance to its own will.
Life (n.) is that which makes efforts, which pushes upwards and outwards and on; "always and always the procreant urge of the world.