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The great importance which man attaches himself to long life. Gives the enquiry into longevity in animals a greater importance than it deserves as a physiologiml or philosophical question. The varying M of life in different species, and the average mortality of a species, are more clearly influential quantities in nature than the possible length of life. Me does not appear in the organic world as an easily recognisable factor, for though in life as in levers what is lost In power is gained In time, it is difficult to distribute the amount of life of any given Species rightly between intensity and length.
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