Sitting beside the hearth, with Fred and his mother planning what they would do, and Lily curled up in my lap, her pure, sweet face nestled close to mine, her sightless eyes remindless of the sorrow we had known, I came near sharing with her the joy I felt in being able to remove her to more favorable quarters.

There are conceivably other factors systematizing cell activity and movement: unknown subtle energies, pamphysical and telekinetic forces, microdoses and biphasic stimuli of enzymes, and psychic and telepathic signals at a cellular level.

That would fall under the rubric of things we can ignore for now.

And along with each of these go their images, not the things themselves, — they too have come about by godlike contrivance.