It was then young, just emerging, as it were, from nothingness, growing into form, assuming shape, and gathering attributes of fitness for exterior vitality, preparing the way for higher existences than mere inorganic matter.

On the other hand, I see no good reason for doubting the necessary alternative, that all these varied species have been evolved from pre- existing crocodilian forms, by the operation of causes as completely a part of the common order of nature as those which have effected the changes of the inorganic world.

In the very deep water off Victoria and Graham's Land, this mud was particularly pure and fine; but towards the shallow shores there existed a greater or less admixture of disintegrated rock and sand; so that the organic compounds of the bottom frequently bore but a small proportion to the inorganic."

INORGANIC MATTER 1.

Inorganization N. mineral world, mineral kingdom; unorganized matter, inorganic matter, brute matter, inanimate matter.

Adj. inorganic, inanimate, inorganized^; lithoidal^; azoic; mineral.

On looking a little closer, we find that inorganic matter presents a constant conflict between chemical forces, which eventually works dissolution; and on the other hand, that organic life is impossible without continual change of matter, and cannot exist if it does not receive perpetual help from without.

What theist doubts that the actual results of the development in the inorganic worlds are not merely compatible with design, but are in the truest sense designed results?

It is for the organic world what that popular view is for the inorganic; and the accepters of the latter stand in a position from which to regard the former in the most favorable light.

Here it would not be amiss to consider the general principle of gradation throughout organic Nature,a principle which answers in a general way to the law of continuity in the inorganic world, or rather is so analogous to it that both may fairly be expressed by the Leibnitzian axiom, Natura non agit saltatim.

The organic is more original than the inorganic; the latter must be explained from the former; that which is dead must be considered as a product of departing life.

As inorganic substances are distinguished only by relative degrees of repulsion and attraction, so the differentiation of organisms is conditioned by the relation of the three vital functions: in the lower forms reproduction predominates, then irritability gradually increases, while in the highest forms both of these are subordinated to sensibility.

Since the third potency is never lacking, all is organic; that which appears to us as inorganic matter is only the residuum left over from organization, that which could become neither plant nor animal.

Thus, in opposition to Kant, Beneke stands on the side of Descartes: The soul is better known to us than the external world, to which we only transfer the existence immediately given in the soul as a result of instinctive analogical inference, so that in the descent of our knowledge from men organized like ourselves to inorganic matter the inadequacy of our representations progressively increases.

They believe that animals have souls, and even that inorganic substances, such as kettles, &c., have in them a similar essence.

(It is scarcely necessary to add that the inorganic salts in solution are not increased, as in the case where chemicals in solution are added to the sewage.)

Inorganic chemistry; rev. and rewritten by James Kendall.

Reference book of inorganic chemistry.

SEE Latimer, Wendell M. LATIMER, WENDELL M. Reference book of inorganic chemistry.

R. J. General inorganic chemistry.

Laboratory instruction in the field of inorganic chemistry.

FALES, HAROLD A. Inorganic quantitative analysis, by Harold A. Fales & Frederic Kenny.

HAROLD A. Inorganic quantitative analysis.

R. J. General inorganic chemistry.

It is constantly being demonstrated that under given conditions, moved by appropriate stimuli, the human animal inevitably and surely reacts the same as does inorganic matter.