An inquiry into the opinions, ancient and modern, concerning life and organization / by John Barclay.

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1822
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    ,037 K Karnes, Lord, an extraordinary instance of his credulity, and the in- fluence of hypothesis, 258. L Lawrence, William, 331. Hostile to the idea of an internal vital principle; yet admits an internal vital principle, composed of an assemblage of vital phenomena. Pretends not to know what link holds that assemblage together. Confounds organization with or- ganism. Adopts lluffon’s division of matter into living and dead, and Hume’s idea of necessary connexion. Makes vital forces to animate living matter only so long as it continues alive. Supposes that all organized bodies end by death, that death is the effect ot life, and that all organized bodies are produced by generation. Treads almost uniformly in the steps of Cuvier. Imws of Nature, 76, 523. Leibnitz, 153. There are certain substances distinct from matter, which may be termed souls or entelecheias, primitive forces, substan- tial substances, simple substances, or monads. These substances are naturally imperishable. All monads, excepting the Deity, are created; and all, excepting the Deity, are invested with bodies. Mo- nads have no influence over their bodies, nor the bodies any influ- ence over their monads. The monads and their bodies co-operate, and are developed by a pre-established order of harmony. All mo- nads have a tendency to rise through a scale of gradation to a high- er rank. The monads, together with their bodies, are somewhat analogous to the germs of Swammerdam, Hartsoeker, Leeuwen- hoek. The word monad signifies sometimes the entelecheia, some- times the body of the entelecheia, and sometimes both. Life only from life, 55, n.; 318, n. Life the cause of death, 335, n. 431. Death the cause of life, 335, n. Life a vague term, some- times signifies an animating principle, sometimes the phenomena which indicate that principle. See Anima. Locke gives no countenance to the hypothesis that all our ideas are derived from sensation, as the French philosophers seem not ohly anxious to insinuate, but even to assert, 356, &c- Lower, 457. Claims the merit of being the first who transfused the blood of one animal into another. Consequences anticipated from the transfusion, 458, 460. Lvcrdiu*, 45. All phenomena may l>e traced ultimately to invisible atoms. Nature operates by invisible atoms. Animals formed by