]
[Footnote 87: these terrible apparatus: apparatus is the form for both
the singular and plural; apparatuses is another form for the plural.]
[Footnote 88: Incident in one of Moliere's plays: the allusion is to the
hero, M. Jourdain in the play, "La Bourgeois Gentilbomme."]
[Footnote 89: these kind: modern writers regard kind as singular.
Shakespeare treated it as a plural noun, as "These kind of knaves I
knew."]
[Footnote 90: Newton: cf. [Footnote 30].]
[Footnote 91: Laplace (1749-1827): a celebrated French astronomer and
mathematician. He is best known for his theory of the formation of the
planetary systems, the so-called "nebular hypothesis." Until recently
this hypothesis has generally been accepted in its main outlines. It
is now being supplanted by the "Spiral Nebular Hypothesis" developed
by Professors Moulton and Chamberlin of the University of Chicago. See
Moulton's Introduction to Astronomy, p. 463.]
ON THE PHYSICAL BASIS OF LIFE (1868)
[Footnote 92: On the Physical Basis of Life: from Methods and Results;
also published in Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews. "The substance of
this paper was contained in a discourse which was delivered in Edinburgh
on the evening of Sunday, the 8th of November, 1868--being the first
of a series of Sunday evening addresses upon non-theological topics,
instituted by the Rev.
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