Biology
What is a machine?--A general comparison of a body and a machine--Details of the action of the machine--Physical explanation of the chief vital functions--The living body is a machine--The living machine constructive as well as destructive--The vital factor 19
==Vital Properties.==--We have seen that the general activities of the body are intelligible according to chemical and mechanical laws, provided we can assume as their foundatio...
6. CHAPTER III.Having now outlined the results of our study into the mechanism of the living machine, we turn our attention next to the more difficult problem of the method by which this machi...
4. CHAPTER I.The problem before us in this section is to find out to what extent animals and plants are machines. We wish to determine whether the laws and forces which regulate their activi...
3. CHAPTER III.History of the living machine--Evidence for this history--Historical--Embryological--Anatomical--Significance of these sources of history--Forces at work in the building of the...
2. CHAPTER II.Vital properties--The discovery of cells--The cell doctrine--The cell--The cellular structure of organisms--The cell wall--Protoplasm--The reign of protoplasm--The decline of th...
1. CHAPTER I.What is a machine?--A general comparison of a body and a machine--Details of the action of the machine--Physical explanation of the chief vital functions--The living body is a m...