The Hunterian Oration: Delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, on the 14th of February, 1879On Dr. Hunter's work and methods. |
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... matter of fact , and was no less essentially a lover of theory ; and his facts and his theories were in due relation to one another . Few men have worked more and made more experiments ; few have thought more ; and in fewer still has ...
... matter of fact , and was no less essentially a lover of theory ; and his facts and his theories were in due relation to one another . Few men have worked more and made more experiments ; few have thought more ; and in fewer still has ...
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... matter , force , and life , in the cool altitude of his own quiet sphere of observa- tion and reflection , far above the heated and perturbing arena of controversy , and who could recognise that no evil to man's moral and better nature ...
... matter , force , and life , in the cool altitude of his own quiet sphere of observa- tion and reflection , far above the heated and perturbing arena of controversy , and who could recognise that no evil to man's moral and better nature ...
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... matter seem to be entirely connected with matter itself , and to be a pro- perty in and inseparable from it , and as these are becoming better known the ' presiding spirits ' are every day vanishing and their authority becoming less1 ...
... matter seem to be entirely connected with matter itself , and to be a pro- perty in and inseparable from it , and as these are becoming better known the ' presiding spirits ' are every day vanishing and their authority becoming less1 ...
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... matter might be , he considered Life to be one of them or akin to them ; and his reasoning about it is highly interesting . He speaks of it , in one place , as “ the principle of self - preservation ; preventing matter from falling into ...
... matter might be , he considered Life to be one of them or akin to them ; and his reasoning about it is highly interesting . He speaks of it , in one place , as “ the principle of self - preservation ; preventing matter from falling into ...
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... matter without life . Set it upright , it acquires a new property , the property of attraction and repulsion , at its different ends . Now , is this any substance added , or is it a certain change which takes place in the arrangement of ...
... matter without life . Set it upright , it acquires a new property , the property of attraction and repulsion , at its different ends . Now , is this any substance added , or is it a certain change which takes place in the arrangement of ...
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