A concordance definition turned into an identification. Neville looks up the word tree in James Strong’s Concordance and reports that it is defined as the spine, the backbone, the carpenter, the gallows - and then asks the question the list invites: who is hanging on the gallows? The carpenter, that is the builder, the potter, the creator; and the tree he hangs on is the spine, the backbone. The tree of life from which man was expelled lest he eat of it before he was prepared is therefore not in a garden and not in a laboratory; it is in him. At 1879 the same four-part definition is given and pressed against the scientists who announce every week that they are closer to making life in a vial: they will never find it, and Blake is quoted for the reason - the gods of the earth and sea sought through nature to find this tree, but their search was all in vain; there grows one in the human brain. The move is characteristic of how Neville uses a concordance: not to settle a translation but to collapse a symbol onto the body.