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identical results in the case of a burning candle 

 and a living guinea-pig." 



" The magnet," says Haeckel, " that attracts 

 iron filings, the powder that explodes, the steam 

 that drives the locomotive are living inorganics ; 

 they act by living force as much as does the 

 sensitive mimosa when it contracts its leaves at 

 touch, or the venerable amphioxus that buries 

 itself in the sand of the sea, or man when he 

 thinks." 



