Heredity, evolution, and vitalism : some of the discoveries of modern research into these matters, their trend and significance / by Ronald Campbell Macfie.

  • Ronald Campbell Macfie
Date:
1912
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    HEREDITY, EVOLUTION, AND VITALISM (< CHAPTER I. LIVING MATTER. Have not all souls thought For many ages that our body is wrought Of aire and fire and other Elements ? And now they think of new ingredients ; And one Soule thinkes one, and another way Another thinkes, and 'tis an even lay. * -ji- * * What hope have wee to know ourselves when wee Know not the least things which for our use be. {Donne.) ТД7Е are fearfully and wonderfully made ! So exclaimed the Psalmist more than two thousand years ago. Yet the Psalmist had only the vaguest conception of the mysterious and intricate mechanism of the body ; and we are far more fearfully and wonderfully made than he The inimita- iiïi3,gined. Indeed, how marvellously bility of the we are made we are still continually living body. discovering, and the miracle of the human body is still full of mystery, and still full of surprises. The beautiful Greek myth of Pygmalion and Galatea tells how a sculptor toiled to achieve the statue of a beautiful woman, and at length made
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