Parallel Paths: A Study in Biology, Ethics, and Art

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T. W. Rolleston. Parallel Paths: A Study in Biology, Ethics, and Art

Parallel Paths: A Study in Biology, Ethics, and Art

Table of Contents

PREFACE

PARALLEL PATHS. PART I: BIOLOGY

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

PART II: ETHICS

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

CHAPTER IX

PART III: ART

CHAPTER X

APPENDIX A

APPENDIX B

APPENDIX C

APPENDIX D

APPENDIX E

Footnote

INDEX

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T. W. Rolleston

Published by Good Press, 2021

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A longer passage shows us what he understands by ‘mechanical’:—

“The living machine differs essentially from other machines in the fact that it constructs itself; it arises by development from a cell, by going through numerous stages of development, but none of these stages is a dead thing, each in itself is a living organism whose chief function is to give rise to the next stage. Thus each stage of the development may be compared to a machine whose function consists in producing a similar but more complex machine. Each stage is thus composed, just like the complete organism, of a number of such ‘constellations’ of elementary substances and elementary forces, whose number in the beginnings is relatively small, but increases rapidly with each new stage.”30

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