Life and matter : a criticism of Professor Haeckel's "Riddle of the universe" / by Sir Oliver Lodge.

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1905
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    CHAPTER X FURTHER SPECULATION AS TO THE ORIGIN AND NATURE OF LIFEi Preliminary Remarks on Recent Views in Chemistry. It is a fact extremely familiar to chemists that the groupings possible to atoms of carbon are exceptionally numerous and com- plicated, each carbon atom having the power of linking itself with others to an extraordinary extent, so that it is no excep- tional thing to find a substance which contains twenty or thirty atoms of carbon as well as other elements linked together in its molecule in a perfectly definite way, the 1 An article reprinted from the North American Review for May 1905.