“It is not the germ cell itself, but the bodily accretion or appendage, which is abandoned by life, and which accordingly, dies and decays.”

—  Oliver Lodge

Raymond, p. 295 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t80k3mq4s;view=1up;seq=337
Raymond, or Life and Death (1916)

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