Life may be defined to be the power of self-augmentation or assimi

Life may be defined to be the power of self-augmentation or assimilation, not of self-nurture; for then a steam-engine over a coal-pit might be made to live. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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