Excerpt from Westminster Lectures That there are two views respecting the nature of every living organism, human, animal, or vegetable, is, I suppose I may take it, familiar to all persons who have bestowed even a very cursory glance upon bio logical controversies. According to the one party, the living organism is a mere machine, and its Operations are the sum of the processes, chemical and physical, which take place in its interior. According to the other party, there is a something over - a something which controls and directs the Operations of the organism, a something differing in char acter from the known chemical and physical forces, which can be investigated in the laboratory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.