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AMONG the phenomena of life the movement of masses, or mechanical work, takes a prominent place. It is the most accessible of all the vital processes to our sensual perceptions, so universally distributed, and so bound up with most of the activities of organisms that it might almost be designated the incarnation of life.
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On the Origin and the Causation of Vital Movement 1 . Nature 38, 627–629 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/038627a0
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