The Writings of John Burroughs. [, volume 18
The Writings of John Burroughs. [, volume 18
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Had the air been dif- ferently constituted, would not our lungs have been 87 Digitized by Google THE BREATH OP LIFE different? The lungs of the iSsh are in his gills: he has to filter his air from a much heavier niedium.
The nose of the pig is fitted for rooting; shall we say, then, that the soil was made friable that pigs might root in it? The webbed foot is fitted to the wdter; shall we say, then, that water is liquid in order that geese and ducks may swim in it? One more atom of oxygen unite...d to the two atoms that go to make the molecule of air, and we should have had ozone instead of the air we now breathe. How imsuited this would have made the air for life as we know it!
Oxidation would have consumed us rapidly. Life would have met this extra atom by some new device.
One wishes Professor Henderson had told us more about how life fits itself to the environment — how matter, moved and moulded only by mechanical and chemical forces, yet has some power of choice that a machine does not have, and can and does select the environment best suited to its well-being.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Had the air been dif- ferently constituted, would not our lungs have been 87 Digitized by Google THE BREATH OP LIFE different? The lungs of the iSsh are in his gills: he has to filter his air from a much heavier niedium.
The nose of the pig is fitted for rooting; shall we say, then, that the soil was made friable that pigs might root in it? The webbed foot is fitted to the wdter; shall we say, then, that water is liquid in order that geese and ducks may swim in it? One more atom of oxygen unite...d to the two atoms that go to make the molecule of air, and we should have had ozone instead of the air we now breathe. How imsuited this would have made the air for life as we know it!
Oxidation would have consumed us rapidly. Life would have met this extra atom by some new device.
One wishes Professor Henderson had told us more about how life fits itself to the environment — how matter, moved and moulded only by mechanical and chemical forces, yet has some power of choice that a machine does not have, and can and does select the environment best suited to its well-being.
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