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" Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit to his stature ? All that has been said, then, regarding the plant may be restated with regard to the animal. Every particle that enters into the composition of a muscle, a nerve, or a bone, has been placed... "
Nature - Page 175
edited by - 1870
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Scientific Use of the Imagination and Other Essays

John Tyndall - 1872 - 102 pages
...to the animal. Every particle that enters into the composition of a muscle, a nerve, or a bone, has been placed in its position by molecular force. And...its environment, its position in the body might be determined mathematically. Our difficulty is not with the quality of the problem, but with its complexity...
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 33

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1874 - 820 pages
...opposes the necessity of law to the spontaneity of mind (p. 92) ; and in still another passage : " And unless the existence of law in these matters be...caprice introduced, we must conclude that, given the relations of any molecule of the body to its environment, its position in the body might be determined...
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An Examination of Herbert Spencer's Biological Hypothesis

Robert Watts - 1875 - 84 pages
...to the animal. Every particle that enters into the composition of a muscle, a nerve, or a bone, has been placed in its position by molecular force. And...its environment, its position in the body might be determined mathematically. Our difficulty is not with the quality of the problem, but with its complexity...
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The Physics and Philosophy of the Senses: Or, The Mental and the Physical in ...

Robert Stodart Wyld - 1875 - 590 pages
...position by molecular force. And, unless the existence of law in these matters be denied, and the elements of caprice introduced, we must conclude that, given the relation of any molecule in the body to its environments, its position in its body might be predicted. Our difficulty is not...
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Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Addresses, and Reviews

John Tyndall - 1876 - 706 pages
...to the animal. Every particle that enters into the composition of a muscle, a nerve, or a bone, has been placed in its position by molecular force. And...its environment, its position in the body might be determined mathematically. Our difficulty is not with the quality of the problem, but with its complexity;...
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Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Addresses, and Reviews

John Tyndall - 1876 - 656 pages
...to the animal. Every particle that enters into the compoation of a muscle, a nerve, or a bone, has been placed in its position by molecular force. And...its environment, its position in the body might be determined mathematically. Our difficulty is not with the quality of the problem, but with its complexity...
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The cabinet of Irish literature, with biogr. sketches and literary notices ...

Charles Anderton Read - 1880 - 394 pages
...to the animal. Every particle that enters into the composition of a muscle, a nerve, or a bone, has been placed in its position by molecular force. And...its environment, its position in the body might be determined mathematically. Our difficulty is not with the quality of the problem, but with its complexity...
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The Cabinet of Irish Literature: Selections from the Works of the ..., Volume 4

Charles Anderson Read - 1880 - 394 pages
...to the animal. Every particle that enters into the composition of a muscle, a nerve, or a bone, has been placed in its position by molecular force. And...its environment, its position in the body might be determined mathematically. Our difficulty is not with the quality of the problem, but with its complexity;...
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The Reign of Causality: A Vindication of the Scientific Principle of Telic ...

Robert Watts - 1888 - 440 pages
...to the animal. Every particle that enters into the composition of a muscle, a nerve, or a bone, has been placed in its position by molecular force. And, unless the existence of law in these matters bo denied, and the element of caprice introduced, we must conclude that, given the relation of any...
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Fragments of Science: a Series of Detached Essays, Addresses and ..., Volume 2

John Tyndall - 1892 - 508 pages
...to the animal. Every particle that enters into the composition of a nerve, a muscle, or a bone has been placed in its position by molecular force. And...its environment, its position in the body might be determined mathematically. Our difficulty is not with the quality of the problem, but with its complexity...
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