Note 35 — THE INDIVIDUAL ORGANISM WITH REGARD TO FORM AND METABOLISM (continued 2)

Rhumbler has recently published a general survey of all attempts to “explain” life, and morphogenesis in particular, in a physico-chemical way (“Aus dem Lückengebiet zwischen organismischer und anorganismischer Natur,” Ergeb. Anat. u. Entw.-gesch. 15, 1906). This very pessimistic survey is the more valuable as it is written by a convinced “mechanist.”