“Life must be considered sui generis; it is not a form of energy, nor can it be expressed in terms of something else.”

— Oliver Lodge

Raymond, p. 290 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t80k3mq4s;view=1up;seq=332
Raymond, or Life and Death (1916)

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