THE STORY OF THE LIVING MACHINE

A REVIEW OF THE CONCLUSIONS OF MODERN BIOLOGY IN REGARD TO THE MECHANISM
WHICH CONTROLS THE PHENOMENA OF LIVING ACTIVITY

BY

H.W. CONN

PROFESSOR OF BIOLOGY IN WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY

AUTHOR OF THE STORY OF GERM LIFE, EVOLUTION OF TO-DAY,
THE LIVING WORLD, ETC.

_WITH FIFTY ILLUSTRATIONS_

NEW YORK D. APPLETON AND COMPANY 1903

COPYRIGHT, 1899,
By D. APPLETON AND COMPANY.





PREFACE.


That the living body is a machine is a statement that is frequently made
without any very accurate idea as to what it means. On the one hand it