New-York tribune., 1922-11-19
lr1bune,s News and Reviews Of Books and Authors
The Quick and Not So
BY Burton Rascoe

BY Burton Rascoe
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biology Each OF these monographs constitutes event In the
general physiology The is for that
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arat book to read is like the other works the series devoid
lie scientific There which with
d charts and deductions which will interest only psychologists
1T the treatise concise lucid and interesting
ore from this book, among other things
Ming strictly speaking death of that all unceular organisms
M actual Immortality that there has been addaced trustworthy
~ the survival personality
M Of old which something
that most alleged enteaaans actually FROM ten thirty
ys than they they
here breakdown organs
phe coordination in the complication
that there has been break dsconnuiy progress
ion It's appearance; higher
aar is simply the price they pay for the privilege
ng those higher specifications
a been added side line business living tng
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Dr. following
81 Life itself is inherently continuous
Living things. rnanya organisms
tialy machines extraordinary compety
regardless their degree OF compexty only amnabe
physical principles
dontnuity necessary adjunct
of fe but is relatively phenomenon
and because structure function
apared N of
Death necessarily
power OF reproducing each part it for accidental
injured; still possessing power
the mechanism separating part
I rom for purposes agamic reproduction
s. Somatc death results dsharmony
rm initiated by the failure organ part continue
sa harmonious functoning in the entire differentiated
g9endent This part may caused
multitude of from external may
i great variety OF ways both sructuray and unctionay
these manifestations which regarded
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consequence thesis posuated life to be
death, whether of soma,
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time at which natural death of the occurs is de-
a the combined herediy each
@ constitution This specific longevity is capable of modification
within relatively limits, result of the
M forces the chief mode Of action of the environment being in the
Used up
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believe that all the essential cells Of both their bodies hat of John
Smith etyeigh, Henry who dies eghty-fe)
a that precisely what for do not readily enough
w Henry his living quietly
ably might oulve Smith, spends his living
una. merely question OF consumption and conservation OF energy
n the essential cells Henry and John capable
living indefinitely AS understand it, life is of growth,
reproduction decay ontnuum Dr. Pearl continuum
% possible only through the loss of certain elements by physico
chemical changes necessary reproduction The dissolu
m cells brought about as he says by exterior forces does
not TOR does t differ, in the growth and decay from the
original loss of the identity Of the original nglee when
ssides INTO two separate and distinct entities?
ran follow Pearls that unceular
immortal while muicelu1ar His
ar organism repoduces itself division
W on reproducing unieeluar division
the same sort OF immortality enjoyed beings
m reproduce their kind? The identity
70 separate cells became cells
nny they likewise divided
n Tor the phyoogss to determine that cell
aemcal change loss
mich ends reproduction by division not precisely
agous the reproduction of life the higher animals? Nav not
nmat human beings be Gkned chemical change
cell Is
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human body death? ask these
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