Parallel Paths (Classic Reprint): A Study in Biology, Ethics, and Art: A Study in Biology, Ethics, and Art (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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In a recent work by an eminent man of science, Dr. J. Reinke, Professor of Botany at the University of Kiel, there occurs a passage which I cannot do better than place in the forefront of this book as an indication of its aim.

"Physiology," writes Professor Reinke, "has become the study of the movements which, taken together, make up life. There is no manner of doubt that nourishment, metabolism, reproduction, development, and sensation rest on processes of movement which depend on material systems of peculiar molecular conformation. For the bodies of plants and of animals are material systems whose conformation is of a most intricate character.

"So far as physiology has at present advanced in the analysis of these phenomena of movement, their problems have fallen naturally into two groups. The first of these groups of phenomena is comparatively transparent, and stands in agreement with the general processes of the material world; it can be investigated by observation and experiment. We may, therefore, hope to decipher it completely, and to reduce it, in the end, to chemico-physical processes. Of this kind are the phenomena of nutrition, taking that word in its widest sense.

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