Note 17 — Chapter IV · THE TWOFOLD CONDITIONING OF VITAL PHENOMENA. IRRITABILITY.
W. J. (William John) Greenstreet translation
These ideas are clearly brought to light in a series of articles in the Revue Philosophique, published in 1879 under the title of “La problème physiologique de la vie,” and endorsed by A. Dastre in his commentary on the Phénomènes communs aux animaux et aux plantes.