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T/fjS BEGINNINGS OF LIFE. 



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a crystal produced under a certain set of conditions 

 may be compelled by its very nature, when these are 

 changed, to undergo an entire molecular rearrangement 

 before a polar equilibrium can be again established 



"^^ ttf between the same molecules and the new influences 

 "^^^^^ Contat to which they are subjected. New-born matter of all 

 "C transforju; kinds ought to show, to a more or less marked extent, 

 ^ ^^'^t. If I a similar plasticity: and if the combinations which 

 s round the r- constitute ' living matter ' are more unstable than those 

 they will ret to which we have just been referring, then the forms 

 bear gentle i assumed by such sensitive matter under different con- 

 ration • but St ditions ought to become more and more divergent. 



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