The Simplicity of Life

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Excerpt from The Simplicity of Life: An Introductory Chapter to Pathology The following remarks on this subject, consist merely of some extracts from Fletcher's Physiology, and a few old notes from his lectures, which, when brought together equally show the error of the physical and vital theories of life, and explain its intrinsic mature in all its simplicity. At the present time there are three principal theories of life, the physical, the vital, and the natural. The physical supported by Professor Huxley, who considers "physiology a complex branch of mere physics" and that "vitality is a nonsensical fiction, " because "it can neither be weighed, measured, nor conceived to Gull. exist. Life therefore is a form or mode of ordinary force." 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.