The New Physiology And Other Addresses

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The mechanistic theory of life assumes that in ultimate analysis it is only an accident that material particles of which the living body is composed are aggregated and combined in the form actually met with, and another accident that they display the activities actually observed in the living body. This follows from the conception of organisms as simply material systems in motion or at rest ; for the physical world as it is ordin- arily conceived consists of matter and energy which are eternal
...and unchangeable, while of their actual distri- bution no explanation is given except that it depends on 32 THE NEW PHYSIOLOGY.
their previous actual distribution, of which no account is given.
Now let us try to analyse an actual example of physiological investigation. I have sometimes been good-naturedly chaffed by physiological brethren for preaching anti-mechanistic doctrines, and actually em- ploying rigid physical and chemical methods in experi- mental work, and reaching equally definite physico- chemical results ; so I will select for analysis the corner of physiology at which I have mainly worked, namely, the physiology of respiration.


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