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Nature, Gardens & Animals

Life and death

Albert Dastre and William John Greenstreet

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What exactly separates the living from the dead? Albert Dastre traces the long argument through animism and vitalism to modern biology, asking what force, if any, animates flesh. He weighs old theories against new chemistry with a steady scientific hand. A thoughtful classic on the border of life. Consider the oldest question a body can pose.

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89 chapters

  1. 1Transcriber’s Notes
  2. 2LIFE AND DEATH
  3. 3PREFACE.
  4. 4CONTENTS.
  5. 5BOOK I. THE FRONTIERS OF SCIENCE—GENERAL THEORIES OF LIFE AND DEATH—THEIR SUCCESSIVE TRANSFORMATIONS.
  6. 6CHAPTER I. EARLY THEORIES.
  7. 7CHAPTER II. ANIMISM.
  8. 8CHAPTER III. VITALISM.
  9. 9§ 1. The Vitalism of Barthez: its Extension.
  10. 10§ 2. The Theory of Vital Properties.
  11. 11§ 3. Scientific Neo-Vitalism.
  12. 12§ 4. Philosophical Neo-Vitalism.
  13. 13CHAPTER IV. THE MONISTIC THEORY.
  14. 14CHAPTER V. THE EMANCIPATION OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH FROM THE YOKE OF PHILOSOPHICAL THEORIES.
  15. 15§ 1. Vital Phenomena in Constituted Organisms.
  16. 16§ 2. The Physiological Domain properly so called.
  17. 17BOOK II. THE DOCTRINE OF ENERGY AND THE LIVING WORLD.
  18. 18CHAPTER I. ENERGY IN GENERAL.

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