"Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three."

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Source : Asa Gray (1880). “Natural Science and Religion: Two Lectures Delivered to the Theological School of Yale College”

Asa Gray

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