The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-03-22
VOLUME XVIII.---NO. 36.
Is Death a Fiction! !

The following are the closing para.
graphs OF contribution TO the New York
Times. by Francis Gerry Fairfield, ph.
, D., of New York, suggested by reading
The verses on Death by NJ. Rcnan:
iaradoNicai as the assertion seems to
the ordinary mind. uninfnrmed as to the
latest revelations Of the microscope, there
Is no such thing rs death in the sense of
the extinction of life. tluantitativelv.
no! far from > per centum Of the human
body consists Of matter that actually
lives; for according to Prof BraIe,
though snch tissues ~ culicle, muscular
iibrt, tie finger nails, lii" hair the bones,
tenhons. c;r.. contain minute living par
tic!cS, they are not living matter in the
proper acceptance o! the term, but mat
ter that has once passed through the
condition of life and is on its way to rcso.
luton into such products II: ammonia,
carhonic acid, urea, and 50 on; 20 that
the question whether the contraction of
muscle is really y vital action is one that
cannot be decided cr caiht,ira. In point
Of fact, therefore, independent of the
standard analysis ofthc body into water i'm
the Older text books, it is susceptible of
Il quan,itativc analysis of far deeper sig
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