Note 23 — Chapter VII · GENERAL DIFFERENCES OF THE TWO LIVES WITH RESPECT TO VITAL POWER.
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These expressions dose, sum, quantity of sensibility are incorrect, inasmuch as they exhibit this vital faculty under the same point of view as the physical forces, as attraction, for example; and as they present it to us as susceptible of calculation, &c.; but, from a want of words for one science, it is necessary, in order to make it understood, to borrow them from the other sciences. There are expressions, like the words to solder, to glue, to unglue, &c. that are used for the want of others in the osseous system, and which really give very inaccurate ideas, unless the mind corrects the sense.