प्रात्माका स्वरूप वात वर्तमान साम्यवादी अनेज विद्वान श्री जोन स्ट्रेचीने अपनी पुस्तक "समाजवादका सिद्धान्त और व्यवहार" (The Theory and Prac- tice of Socialism) के ३६२ पृष्ठमे लिखते हुए मार्क्सवादके मूल नेता श्री फ्रेड्रिक एगेल्सके “ड्यूगिके विरुद्ध" (Anti-Duhring) पुस्तकके एक अशको ज्योका त्यो उद्धृत कर दिया है । वह इस प्रकार है "In the same way Engels observes that the eating and excreting processes, which every- living thing must continually maintain, mean that the actual physical 'structure of every man (for example) is continually changing. A man is not composed of the same cells as he was thirty years ago. Not a single one of the atoms of matter, which then constituted the man, is left. And yet we say without hesitation that it is the same man. The movement or evolution, through time,. of a living organism, seems to present an analogous contradiction to the movement of an object through space. “Life is, therefore, also a contradiction, which is present in things and processes them- selves and, which constantly asserts and solves itself; and as soon as the contradiction ceases, life too comes to an end, and death steps in”—“Anti- Duhring,” page 138." इसका आशय यह है, "उसी तरह एगेल्सका यह भी कहना है कि हरेक जानदारके लिये जिस खाने और पाखानेका निरन्तर जारी
