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V. The Specific Form: its Acquisition, its Reparation
      199

VI. Nutrition. Functional Assimilation. Functional
Distribution. Assimilating Synthesis 209


BOOK IV.

The Life of Matter.

I. Universal Life (Opinions of the Philosophers
and Poets). Continuity between Brute Bodies
and Living Bodies. Origin of the Principle of
Continuity 239

II. Origin of Living Matter in Brute Matter 249

III. Organization and Chemical Composition of Living
Matter and Brute Matter 255

IV. Evolution and Mutability of Living Matter and
Brute Matter 259

V. The Composition of the Specific Form. Living
Bodies and Crystals. Cicatrization 281

VI. Nutrition in the Living Being and in the
Crystal 290

VII. Generation in Brute Bodies and Living Bodies.
Spontaneous Generation 294


BOOK V.

Senescence and Death.

I. The Different Points of View from which Death
may be regarded 307

II. Constitution of the Organisms. Partial Death.
Collective Deaths 312

III. Physical and Chemical Characteristics of
Cellular Deaths. Necrobiosis 321

IV. Apparent Perrennity of Complex Individuals 330

V. Immortality of the Protozoa and of Slightly
Differentiated Cells 334

VI. Lethality of the Metazoa and of Differentiated
Cells 340

VII. Man. The Instinct of Life and the Instinct of
Death 345

Index 361