... Revolution arose the belief that mechanical principles governed all phenomena, from the movement of the planets to the beating of a heart. By the nineteenth century, the major scientific thinkers, following Descartes, were proclaiming that all of nature was one vast machine. As a result, the distinction between the living and the dead was blurred and it was widely felt that inorganic matter ... ...

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