[203] This is the old philosophic axiom writ large: Ignorato motu, ignoratur natura; which again is but an adaptation of Aristotle’s phrase, ἡ ἀρχὴ τῆς κινήσεως, as equivalent to the “Efficient Cause.” FitzGerald holds that “all explanation consists in a description of underlying motions”; Scientific Writings, 1902, p. 385.
[204] As when Nägeli concluded that the organism is, in a certain sense, “vorgebildet”; Beitr. zur wiss. Botanik, II, 1860. Cf. E. B. Wilson, The Cell, etc., p. 302.
[205] “La matière arrangée par une sagesse divine doit être essentiellement organisée partout ... il y a machine dans les parties de la machine Naturelle à l’infini.” Sur le principe de la Vie, p. 431 (Erdmann). This is the very converse of the doctrine of the Atomists, who could not conceive a condition “ubi dimidiae partis pars semper habebit Dimidiam partem, nec res praefiniet ulla.”
[206] Cf. an interesting passage from the Elements (I, p. 445, Molesworth’s edit.), quoted by Owen, Hunterian Lectures on the Invertebrates, 2nd ed. pp. 40, 41, 1855.
[207] “Wir müssen deshalb den lebenden Zellen, abgesehen von der Molekularstructur der organischen Verbindungen welche sie enthält, noch eine andere und in anderer Weise complicirte Structur zuschreiben, und diese es ist welche wir mit dem Namen Organisation bezeichnen,” Brücke, Die Elementarorganismen, Wiener Sitzungsber. XLIV, 1861, p. 386; quoted by Wilson, The Cell, etc. p. 289. Cf. also Hardy, Journ. of Physiol. XXIV, 1899, p. 159.
[208] Precisely as in the Lucretian concursus, motus, ordo, positura, figurae, whereby bodies mutato ordine mutant naturam.
[209] Otto Warburg, Beiträge zur Physiologie der Zelle, insbesondere über die Oxidationsgeschwindigkeit in Zellen; in Asher-Spiro’s Ergebnisse der Physiologie, XIV, pp. 253–337, 1914 (see p. 315). (Cf. Bayliss, General Physiology, 1915, p. 590).
[210] Hardy, W. B., On some Problems of Living Matter (Guthrie Lecture), Tr. Physical Soc. London, xxviii, p. 99–118, 1916.
[211] As a matter of fact both phrases occur, side by side, in Graham’s classical paper on “Liquid Diffusion applied to Analysis,” Phil. Trans. CLI, p. 184, 1861; Chem. and Phys. Researches (ed. Angus Smith), 1876, p. 554.
[212] L. Rhumbler, Mechanische Erklärung der Aehnlichkeit zwischen Magnetischen Kraftliniensystemen und Zelltheilungsfiguren, Arch. f. Entw. Mech. XV, p. 482, 1903.