General physiology; an outline of the science of life . like a liquid. The idea that vital phenomena can be associated with a solid 94 GENERAL PHYSIOLOGY substratum only is not only unjustified, but even untenable. Notonly is it unsupported on any acceptable ground, but it evencontradicts facts that may easily be observed. , it is quiteimpossible to understand how protoplasm in the more or less stiffcondition of a framework or network can be capable of streamingand flowing, as can be observed so easily in certain plant-cells andin Amceba. It is impossible for a solid network to flow in suc
General physiology; an outline of the science of life . like a liquid. The idea that vital phenomena can be associated with a solid 94 GENERAL PHYSIOLOGY substratum only is not only unjustified, but even untenable. Notonly is it unsupported on any acceptable ground, but it evencontradicts facts that may easily be observed. , it is quiteimpossible to understand how protoplasm in the more or less stiffcondition of a framework or network can be capable of streamingand flowing, as can be observed so easily in certain plant-cells andin Amceba. It is impossible for a solid network to flow in such amanner that the individual particles of its mass mix continuallywith one another, as may be seen so clearly in Amceba. If at firstsight the theory of the solid consistency may not be incompatiblewith the behaviour of cells that possess a constant form, it isabsolutely so with the phenomena exhibited by naked protoplasmicmasses. Hence various investigators, especially Berthold (86) andButschli (92, 1), have recently defended strongly the idea of the.
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