A "continuous" [i.e. direct] transition at most exists in polarized molecular boundary layers (See in Part XVg (previous-previous document) : "Denaturation"), otherwise not, although the fracture -- one also speaks of a "ravine" between them -- is apparently easily crossed by life-already. A kind of linking-transition is therefore seemingly apparent because the protoplasm equivalents and the organismic products such as protein, cellulose, amylum, etc. lie at the "upper" end of classical chemistry and so giving the impression that only one more step is required -- we being deluded in a deceptive way by the "smooth" metazoic [referring to multicellular organisms] nutrition-assimilation process -- to stand right in the middle of life. In our view -- lying outside vitalism and mechanicism, neither resolving life as to be a physical-chemical event with special imprint, nor adding to a rational physical-chemical causality an irrational "entelechy" -- we believe to have brought in a substantial amount of "light" in this complex of questions.