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Chemists have labored to produce living...

From the January 1887 issue of The Christian Science Journal


Chemists have labored to produce living matter, but so far have utterly failed in these endeavors. Organic matter has been analyzed, and its chemical constituents— carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, sulphur—are all known; but when chemists combine these elements in the same proportions, no breath comes, no throbbing heart, no blood-circulation; in fact, not the slightest trace of what we distinguish by the name of Life.

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