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Excerpt from The Hypothesis of the Universality of Life We seem always to have been very much given to going quite out of our way to select involved explanations of natural phenomena, when any question was first pre sented, albeit much simpler explanations would have been more logical, and often nearer the truth. We should not say, however, that a logical explanation is always the right one. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.