“Microscopic organisms may have troublesome and destructive effects, but in themselves they can be be studied with interest and avidity.”

—  Oliver Lodge

Raymond, p. 303 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t80k3mq4s;view=1up;seq=345
Raymond, or Life and Death (1916)

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