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The mechanistic theory of life-the theory that all living things can be explained and fully accounted for on purely physico-chemical principles-has many defenders in our day. The main aim of the foregoing chapters is to point out the inadequacy of this view. At the risk of wearying my reader I am going to collect under the above heading a few more