The unity of nature / by Charles Bland Radcliffe.

Date:
1850
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Credit: The unity of nature / by Charles Bland Radcliffe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    C 0 N T E N T S. PAGE Introduction 1 CHAPTER I. OF UNITY IN FORM. I. Of unity in the forms of organic nature .... 8 I. Of unity in the organs of living bodies .... 9 1. In the plant 9 2. In the animal 23 II. Of unity in the entire organism 31 1. In the plant 31 2. In the animal 34 ( III. Of unity in plant and animal 45 1. General considerations in favour of this doctrine . 46 2. Special arguments in demonstration of it ... 53 Of the primary and fundamental hindrance to the discovery of unity in organic nature—namely, the archetypal law of the vertebra, and of the partial removal of this difficulty 53