The nervous system and its functions / By Herbert Mayo.

  • Herbert Mayo
Date:
1842
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Credit: The nervous system and its functions / By Herbert Mayo. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    parent plant: so that although the power of sup- porting growth ceases after a brief period in the individual, the species is preserved and at the same time multiplied by the transmission of this force, which is thereby nowise weakened. This power or force in plants we term their life ; ignorant whether it is a separate force in nature, or whether the Creator of living things had but to compel the chemical combinations and bring about the exact material conditions, which are concen- trated in a living being, and it would live; as a human mechanist has but to frame, and temper, and put together the parts of a watch, and it goes. And animal life is essentially the same with vegetable life. But the vital movements and functions are now made subordinate to conscious- ness. So that when sense and volition are extin- guished, the animal body immediately dies,—not to cumber the earth with the continued growth in plant-like existence, of beings that once partook of intelligence. And animals and plants are made of the same ultimate elements; and after death are resolved mto, as their essential constituents, carbon, oxygen, B 2
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