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Synopsis
Unlock the mystery at the heart of life and matter. This thoughtful exploration offers clarity on why living things resist simple, mechanical explanations.
In The Breath of Life, John Burroughs wrestles with big questions: What makes a living thing different from a machine? How do life and mind emerge from chemistry and physics? The book surveys competing ideas—from vitalism to mechanistic science—while guiding readers toward a natural, literary sense of wonder about day and night, growth, and the living world.
Across careful argument and reflective observation, Burroughs frames life as a phenomenon that science can describe yet not fully explain. He weighs experiments, theories, and the interplay between environment and organism, offering a humane, landscape‑level view of life’s mystery and a hopeful invitation to look closely at the world around us.
- Investigates what sets living beings apart from nonliving matter
- Survey of ideas about vitality, mechanism, and natural law
- Discussion of experiments and thinkers shaping 20th‑century biology
- Contemplative, nature‑rooted approach to science and philosophy
Ideal for readers who enjoy thoughtful nature writing, scientific philosophy, and essays that bridge the gap between observation and inquiry.
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Eternal in this or in any other world. In these studies I fancy I am about as far from mastering the mystery as the ant which I saw this morning industriously exploring a small section of the garden walk is from getting a clear idea of the geography of the North American Continent. But the ant was occupied and was apparently happy, and she must have learned something about a small fraction of that part of the earths surface. I have passed many pleasant summer days in my hay-barn study, or under the apple trees, exploring these questions, and though I have not solved them, I am satisfied with the clearer view I have given myself of the mystery that envelops them. I have set down in these pages all the thoughts that have come to me on this subject. I have not aimed so much at consistency as at clearness and definiteness of statement, letting my mind drift as upon a shoreless sea.
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Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.
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Paperback. Etat : New. Print on Demand. This book explores the mystery of lifeâs nature and origin. The author shares a journey that delves into the fundamental differences between mechanical and living things, examines scientific vitalism, and explores the nature of the life-force. Touched upon are larger questions regarding the purpose of life, God, the soul, and consciousness. The author takes up the two different ideas that he finds wrestle in his mind: that of the super-mechanical and super-chemical character of living things, and the idea of the supremacy and universality of natural law. The author concludes that his passion for nature and all open-air life, though tinged and stimulated by science, is not a passion for pure science, but for literature and philosophy. While his imagination and ingrained humanism are appealed to by the facts and methods of natural history, he finds something akin to poetry and religion in the shows of day and night, and in his excursions to fields and woods. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. N° de réf. du vendeur 9781440095542_0
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