This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1848 edition. Excerpt: ...agency, can exhibit no active properties in consequence thereof, which would distinguish it from ordinary inanimate matter. We can thus understand how the organizing agency may remain dormant in matter in which it is known to reside, till aroused into activity by such means as are adequate to that end. And ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1848 edition. Excerpt: ...agency, can exhibit no active properties in consequence thereof, which would distinguish it from ordinary inanimate matter. We can thus understand how the organizing agency may remain dormant in matter in which it is known to reside, till aroused into activity by such means as are adequate to that end. And what are those means, we at once naturally inquire? As the organizing influence cannot reside in matter which is not thereby rendered organized, the destruction of the organization of the organizing atom must give emancipation, and consequent activity to the organizing influence. Then, and not till then, can the operations of this agency become active or manifestly apparent. Destroy, then, the organized condition of the organizing atom, and the result will at once be that the organizing influence or agency must be set free. No longer dormant in the matter in which it is known to reside, that matter will now manifest properties markedly distinct from those of inanimate matter; it will now exhibit the phenomena of active vitality. But how can the organized condition of the organizing atom be destroyed? Obviously, by either increasing the chemical, or diminishing the organizing force, or perhaps most efficiently by both. In what way could the chemical force be more effectually augmented, than by presenting to the atom a chemical agent, which had for some of its constituents an extraordinary affinity? That chemical agent we have already seen in oxygen gas, and the constituent of the organizing atom is the alkaliginous metal. And in what way could the organizing agent be more effectually diminished, or, which is the same thing, withdrawn from the atom, than by presenting to such atom that which is capable of involving it in, as it were, a reciprocal...
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