An Enquiry Into the Probability and Rationality of Mr. Hunter's Theory of Life: Being the Subject of the First Two Anatomical Lectures Delivered Before the Royal College of Surgeons, of LondonLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814 - 95 pages |
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Page 74 - ... to organization; they would then see equal reason to believe that mind might be superadded to life, as life is to structure. They would then indeed still farther perceive how mind and matter might reciprocally operate on each other by means of an intervening substance. Thus even would physiological researches enforce the...
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Page 14 - I think naturally conclude, that life does hot depend on organization. Mr. Hunter, who so patiently and accurately examined the different links of this great chain, which seems to connect even man with the common matter of the universe, was of this opinion. In speaking of the properties of life, he says, it is something that prevents...
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