45. 〃 The Phenomena of Heat are the Effects of a rapid
Motion of the Particles of Matter 63
46. 〃 The Structure of Water 65
47. 〃 Suppositions or Hypotheses; their Uses and their Value 67
48. 〃 The Hypothesis that Water is composed of Separate
Particles (Molecules) 68
49. 〃 All Matter is probably made up either of Molecules or
of Atoms 70
50. 〃 Elementary Bodies are neither destroyed nor is their
Quantity increased in Nature 72
51. 〃 Simple Mixture 73
52. 〃 Mixture followed by Increase of Density; Alcohol and
Water 74
53. 〃 Solution; Water Dissolves Salt 76
54. 〃 Quicklime and Water: Plaster of Paris and Water:
Combination 79
55. 〃 Mineral bodies may take on definite shapes and grow,
or increase in size, by the addition of like parts 82
(B.) LIVING BODIES.
56. 〃 The Wheat Plant and the substances of which it is
composed 83
57. 〃 The common Fowl and the Substances of which it is
Composed 85
58. 〃 Certain Constituents of the Body are very similar in
the Wheat Plant and in the Fowl 86
59. 〃 Proteid Substances are met with in Nature only in
Animals and Plants; and Animals and Plants always
contain Proteids 87
60. 〃 What is meant by the word Living? 88
61. 〃 The Living Plant increases in Size, by adding to the
Substances which compose its Body, like Substances;
these, however, are not derived from without, but
are manufactured within the Body of the Plant from
simpler Materials 88
62. 〃 The Living Plant, after it has grown up, detaches part
of its Substance, which has the Power of developing
into a similar Plant, as a Seed 90
63. 〃 The Living Animal increases in Size by adding to the
Substances which compose its Body, like Substances;
these, however, are chiefly derived directly from
other Animals or from Plants 90
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