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APPENDIX. 



AN ATTEMPT TOWARDS A MORE EXTENDED 

 INDUCTION OF THE LAWS OF LIFE. 



[The following is the Essay referred to in the Introduction 

 and at page 53.] 



THE motion of a pendulum consists of two portions 

 a downward movement caused by gravitation, and 

 an upward movement, theoretically equal in amount, 

 which is produced by the momentum arising from 

 the former. The essential condition of the sequence 

 of the upward movement is that the downward 

 movement should be resisted in a definite manner. 

 The gravitating motion, not being completed, be- 

 comes a motion opposed to gravity. 



The molecular changes recognized in living bodies 

 are of two kinds those which result in that ar- 



