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Yes, says Epicurus, but these corpuscles must be looked on as exceedingly small, so that some of them are a ten-thousandth part of the size of the very smallest particles carried in the air. Then do you venture to say that so great a weight of iron can be suspended by such small bodies? If each of them is a ten-thousandth part as large as the dust particles which are borne in the atmosphere, how big must we suppose the hook-like extremities by which they interlock with each othercf. Ehrlich's hypothesis of receptors in explanation of the affinities of animal cells. to be? For of course this is quite the smallest portion of the whole particle.
