If the basic solution to the mystery of life No. 5 did not exist.
579. That this thinking and creating only exist as characteristics of a living being, thereby making into a fact the living "something" behind thinking and creating ideas, can only confirm the fifth basic element of life's mystery as an undoubted advantage. What would life be without that fact? Life without a "thinker" or a "creator of ideas" would be no life at all and could not constitute an existence. And the Universe without those facts would be an eternal "nothing".