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THE BEGINNINGS OF LIFE. 



published his now well-known work 



• Mr. Grove 



the 'Correlation of the Physical Forces' and 





on 



this, after having spoken of the relations 



111 



existing 







between the several physical forces, he said, 'I be 

 lieve that the same principles and mode of reasoning 

 might be applied to the organic, as well as to the 

 inorganic world; and that muscular force, animal 

 and vegetable heat, &c., might, and at some time 

 will, be shown to have similar definite correlations.' 

 This view was taken up by Dr. Carpenter, and 



ship 



exists 



legiti 



\itH 



itimately 



force 



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wei 



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tal forces 

 plants and of t 

 of the light, he 

 without, which 

 again, either d 

 much more fully elaborated by him. In an article } after their deal 



also, to a sligh 



was 



contributed to the 'British and 



Foreign 



Med 



Chirurgical Review' for January, 1848, Dr. Carpenter 

 maintained ' that the vital forces, of various kinds, 

 bear the same relation to the several physical forces 

 of the inorganic world that they bear to each other; 



tricity. 



These 



by him ^ •. 



.'Tl 



the 



reat essential modification or transformation 



being effected by their passage, so to speak, through 

 the germ of the organic structure, somewhat after the 

 same fashion that heat becomes electricity when passed 



r 



through certain mixtures of metals.' Then, in 1850, 

 a memoir was read before the Royal Society, and after- 

 wards published in the 'Philosophical Transactions 

 entitled, ' On the Mutual Relations of the Vital and 



ordial cell of 

 then to develo] 

 organism, was 

 single cell, no: 



^re progressive 

 Mts'; but it 1 



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1 



In 



) 



t 



Physical Forces/ in which the whole doctrine was 



much 



1845. Though it originally formed part of a paper which afterwards 

 appeared in the 20th vol. of the 'Transactions of the Linn^an Society, 

 but from which this particular passage was omitted by desire 01 

 officers of the Society. 



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unicellular 

 /entiated, are c^ 

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forces - ''' -Je 



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