Deduction. Living bodies convert other matter into their 

 own nature; but chemical union destroys the identity of 

 an inanimate body instead of enlarging it. 

 Suddenness of chemical changes. Slowness of vital changes. 

 Passive character of chemical changes. Popular error in 

 relation to the motions of the eye-stone. 

 Permanent duration of minerals. 



Animated beings subject, like minerals, to motions from exter- 

 nal causes; but have inherent, active, powers of motion. 

 Power of adapting themselves to circumstances common to 

 all living things Habits of roots and stems of plants grow- 

 ing in the dark The potatoe Influence of light on leaves 

 and flowers Hedysarum Gyrans Its motion supposed to 

 be connected with respiration Influence of temperature 

 on its motions Habits of the Venus' fly-trap or Dionoea^ 

 Muscipula. 



First distinction between animate and inanimate things the 

 power of independent mechanical motion in the former. 



EXPLANATION OF TERMS. 



Necessity for a machine to produce the independent motions 



of living beings APPARATUS. 



Necessity of various parts in an apparatus designed to pro- 

 duce various effects ORGAN. 

 Animated beings composed of inanimate matter drawn from 



external supplies, 

 Saracenia or Bottle-plant raised in distilled water The air 



plant. 



But the matter composing a living being must be differently 

 arranged from any kind of inanimate matter ORGANIZA- 

 TION. 



Organization continues for a certain time after death longer 

 in some parts and in some situations than in others Divi- 

 sion of all matter into ORGANIC MATTER and INORGANIC 



MATTER. 



Definition of ORGANIC REMAINS and PETRIFACTIONS Peru 

 vian mummies Bodies on mountain plains and in polar 

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