Mighty Morphin Historical Objects
			Despite Oliver Lodge's commentary on the ideas of Earnest Haeckel, the Late-19th Century philosopher and scientist, many of the ones concerning materialism have a vibrancy and persistence not unlike the state of matter and energy in Lodge's same delineation of Haeckel's theory. Haeckel's theory has been called a riddle88, and with a materialism that is so all-inclusive, it is difficult to envision how something else in comparison to it, can maintain its own characteristics without being shadowed or heckled by it instead. For some readers, Haeckel's view comes solely through Oliver Lodge, so it is with Lodge that we establish theoretical differences despite the effect Haeckel's law of substance has on contextual cues. Understandably, Lodge's theory opposes Haeckel's theory, in a subtle section of his book, Life and Matter, called, "Persistence of the Existent." In this section, Lodge is a champion of scientific responsibility who charges Haeckel for proposing to have ultimately located life and energy as natural forces. For Haeckel's state of non-knowing, Lodge uses 'ignoramus' to mean, what 'we do not know'; the first non-symbiotic bridge between theories comes from Haeckel's monism--he believes that matter and energy are together one thing. Whereas, Lodge maintains that one should not assume that only one entity exists, without proof89. To Lodge's proposal earlier in Life and Matter that Haeckel in fact aligns himself with a type of pantheism, Haeckel might proudly respond that every atom has the potentiality of life, choice, and consciousness.90 It is now easy to propose that every atom behaves in the same way and that they all possess consciousness and choice. Maybe materialisms have a simplicity that gives them value. But simplicity does not translate into beauty or goodness by default, the atoms then often turn into systems of determinism. Still on an atomic level, reason tends to exit according to the degree at which Haeckel misleads with unsolved scientific problems (specifically his theory of origins and monism), and discursively mediates with a deranged vision's laughter towards other theories forming in context with its own law of substance. Another theory juxtaposed to Haeckel's law would be superlatively relaxed out of philosophical complicity: a problem appears with the consideration of his law and the literary content of the early 20th Century science fiction author, Olaf Stapledon's, all in relationship to historical materialism of the Marxian type, though, respectively, one having an atomistic view and the other using a variation on dialectical materialism. The comparison of Haeckel's law to the synthesis-symbiosis of Stapledon, ends up with a criticism by Haeckel of the psycho-evolutionary idea of a unified mind which Stapledon has proposed. While "complement" substituted for "antithesis" by Stapledon, is closer to an epiphenominalism, the use of "symbiosis" for the resultant phase of a thesis/antithesis, goes overboard in maintaining the identity for which it contains a chaotic mixture of organic relationships.			21. 24. Lodge, Oliver. Life and Matter: A Criticism of Professor Haeckel's "Riddle of the Universe". London: Williams & Norgate, 1907... the amount of magnetism thus producible being infinite; that is, being strictly without limit, and not dependent at all on the very finite strength of the original magnet, which indeed continues unabated. 25. Fiedler, Leslie A. Olaf Stapledon: A Man Divided. Oxford University Press: Oxford, 1983. p. 144. 'Stapledon, in any case, peoples his richly swarming worlds with creatures of all three kinds. The most vividly imagined among them, however, are based on models likely to be observed by one who (like Stapledon and his wife on the rocky cliffs shere he was first moved to fantasize about man's future) looks from shore to sea to sky: starfish and hermit crabs on the beach itself; kelp and sea anemones below the surface of the water... 88. 'Riddle of the Universe,' by Earnst Haeckel. 89. Not speaking in reference to God. 90. p.38. 'His speculation is that all these properties are nascent and latent in the material atoms themselves, that these have the potentiality of life an choice and consciousness, which were perceive in their developed combinations.