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... vitality , that mysterious force which modifies all chemical and mechanical phenomena , and which so essentially distinguishes the organic world from the brute materials of which it is composed . In discussing this subject , it will be ...
... vitality , that mysterious force which modifies all chemical and mechanical phenomena , and which so essentially distinguishes the organic world from the brute materials of which it is composed . In discussing this subject , it will be ...
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... vitality other than the power of forming Cytoblasts , * and arranging cellules after a definite type ( Gardner in Phil . Mag . xxviii . 432 ) . Even here it is admitted that some vitality exists ; for the arrangement of cells , or in ...
... vitality other than the power of forming Cytoblasts , * and arranging cellules after a definite type ( Gardner in Phil . Mag . xxviii . 432 ) . Even here it is admitted that some vitality exists ; for the arrangement of cells , or in ...
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... vitality ; so high indeed that they are only less than voluntary actions . d . But perhaps nothing places the presence of a powerful vital force in stronger evidence than the facts which modern botanists have discovered in connection ...
... vitality ; so high indeed that they are only less than voluntary actions . d . But perhaps nothing places the presence of a powerful vital force in stronger evidence than the facts which modern botanists have discovered in connection ...
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... vitality , but of such a force being present in plants in great activity . Evidence of this kind , proving as it does beyond all doubt the presence of a vitality among plants identical with that of animals , though different in its ...
... vitality , but of such a force being present in plants in great activity . Evidence of this kind , proving as it does beyond all doubt the presence of a vitality among plants identical with that of animals , though different in its ...
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... vitality , inexpli- cable if referred to the operation of mere material forces . One of the causes which have most embarrassed the progress of cultivation is not perceiving the presence among plants of this vital principle . Because ...
... vitality , inexpli- cable if referred to the operation of mere material forces . One of the causes which have most embarrassed the progress of cultivation is not perceiving the presence among plants of this vital principle . Because ...
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