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... whole ; so that the chemist , in experimenting with any substance , cares not , except as a matter of convenience merely , whether a grain or a ton be the subject of his researches . The minutest ' atom of carbonate of lime , for ...
... whole ; so that the chemist , in experimenting with any substance , cares not , except as a matter of convenience merely , whether a grain or a ton be the subject of his researches . The minutest ' atom of carbonate of lime , for ...
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... whole . Such structures are said to be more highly organized than those of the lower classes ; not because the whole number of parts is greater , for it is frequently much less ; but because the number of dissimilar parts , and the ...
... whole . Such structures are said to be more highly organized than those of the lower classes ; not because the whole number of parts is greater , for it is frequently much less ; but because the number of dissimilar parts , and the ...
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... whole series of changes which is character- istic of the species , and having prepared the germs by which the race is to be propagated , dies and decays ; that is , all those operations , which distinguish living organized structures ...
... whole series of changes which is character- istic of the species , and having prepared the germs by which the race is to be propagated , dies and decays ; that is , all those operations , which distinguish living organized structures ...
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... whole vital force . were expended in the secreting process , which is nothing else on their parts than an act of growth . So , again , the cells which constitute the fibrillæ of Muscular fibre , and of whose change of form the ...
... whole vital force . were expended in the secreting process , which is nothing else on their parts than an act of growth . So , again , the cells which constitute the fibrillæ of Muscular fibre , and of whose change of form the ...
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... whole nisus of Vegetable life may be considered as manifested in this production ; and , in effecting it , each organism is not only drawing material , but force , from the universe around it . Sup- posing that no Animals existed to ...
... whole nisus of Vegetable life may be considered as manifested in this production ; and , in effecting it , each organism is not only drawing material , but force , from the universe around it . Sup- posing that no Animals existed to ...
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