Life and death

"Life and Death" by A. Dastre is a scientific work from the early 1900s that examines life and death using scientific and philosophical ideas. It's all about understanding the nature of living things, with comparisons of older ideas to newer scientific ones, like moving from beliefs in spirits to more mechanical points of view. It tries to get across the fundamental truths of biology, combining lab findings with philosophical questions about what it means to be alive. The writing aims to make deep scientific ideas understandable to anyone interested in the big questions about existence.