The Library Magazine, Vol. 2: November, 1886-March, 1887 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from The Library Magazine, Vol. 2: November, 1886-March, 1887

Hence, the best definition of anorganology would be that science which accounts for cosmic phenomena on the ground of the New tonian law only, whether they occur in the heavens or on the earth, in arock or in a human body. Biology, then, is that science which accounts for cosmic phenomena requit ing the addition of more specific law - viz., the Darwinian law of struggle for life and transformism. Such phenomena, indeed, are observable only in individuals, but these in dividuals may be either microscopic plastids or exceedingly large aggregations of the most perfect individuals, st) led seeds in M. Catta neo's classification nevertheless, the phenome na must be referred to the biological domain so far as they are explicable on the ground of the Darwinian law (struggle for life or comm tition), which is not a dens at: machina, but merely a synthesis of numberless mechanical, physical, and chemical agencies.

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