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It is rather remarkable that the majority of learned men have closed their minds to what seemed bare and simple facts to many people.

— Oliver Lodge Raymond, or Life and Death (1916)

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Life must be considered sui generis; it is not a form of energy, nor can it be expressed in terms of something else.

Raymond, or Life and Death (1916)

It is not the germ cell itself, but the bodily accretion or appendage, which is abandoned by life, and which accordingly, dies and decays.

Raymond, or Life and Death (1916)

I am as convinced of continued existence, on the other side of death, as I am of existence here.

Raymond, or Life and Death (1916)

Microscopic organisms may have troublesome and destructive effects, but in themselves they can be be studied with interest and avidity.

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What properties are essential to a medium capable of transmitting wave motion? Roughly, we may say two: elasticity and inertia.

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