[1] The latest researches in regard to the newly discovered corpuscles show that these “bodies” have a mass proportional to the square of their velocity, thus forcing us to conclude that they at rest have no mass. Perhaps, therefore, the ancient dualistic world of matter and force is merging into a larger unity where life directs force to serve its specific purposes.—Translator’s note.

[2] Chemists understand that the so-called native iron, found, for instance, in Greenland, forms no real exception more than the chemical reactions that absorb heat form exceptions to the general law that chemical processes set heat free, because if the necessary simultaneous reactions are taken into account, all the reactions as a whole show a surplus of heat.—Translator’s note.

[3] BjÖrklund might here properly have referred to his previous demonstration of the fact that life has no roots in time, consequently is independent of this principle—i. e., immortal.—Translator’s note.