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... movement of which an animal or man is capable ; but in all cases the central fact , that which supplies the motive - power , is the contrac- tion of a muscle , a shortening of its constituent fibres whereby its two ends are brought for ...
... movement of which an animal or man is capable ; but in all cases the central fact , that which supplies the motive - power , is the contrac- tion of a muscle , a shortening of its constituent fibres whereby its two ends are brought for ...
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... movements wrought through motor nerves and muscles . And one large part of physiology has for its task the unravelling of ... movement , feeling , and thought . Even a rough initial analysis , however , such as we have just attempted to ...
... movements wrought through motor nerves and muscles . And one large part of physiology has for its task the unravelling of ... movement , feeling , and thought . Even a rough initial analysis , however , such as we have just attempted to ...
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... movements mentioned above , that which may be called the " protoplasmic " movement , a movement which , throwing overboard altogether all conceptions of life as the outcome of organization , as the mechanical result of structural ...
... movements mentioned above , that which may be called the " protoplasmic " movement , a movement which , throwing overboard altogether all conceptions of life as the outcome of organization , as the mechanical result of structural ...
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... movement , or as appre- ciable rise of temperature . Now such a body , such a mass of simple protoplasm , homogeneous save for the admixtures spoken of above , is a . living body , and all the phenomena which we sketched out at the very ...
... movement , or as appre- ciable rise of temperature . Now such a body , such a mass of simple protoplasm , homogeneous save for the admixtures spoken of above , is a . living body , and all the phenomena which we sketched out at the very ...
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... movement and feeling is reduced in them to a mini- mum ; they are able to pass on the greater part of the elaborated nourishment to their brethren the ectoderm cells . And these , thus amply supplied with material which it needs but ...
... movement and feeling is reduced in them to a mini- mum ; they are able to pass on the greater part of the elaborated nourishment to their brethren the ectoderm cells . And these , thus amply supplied with material which it needs but ...
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