Note 897

The aditional and varying bridge-energy -- mainly coming from the interaction of an individual electron pair of Y with the polarizable X-H covalent bond, making up some 100 up to several 1000 calories [per mole] -- is much smaller than the energy of the cardinal valences. However, it may, precisely in the constitutions of living substance (on which we here focus our attention) not be determined in what way the amounts are  really  distributed, in about the sense of shift, levelling out, etc. This is also the case in many other chemical compounds which only at the moment of experimental intervention react  such  as if the hydrogen qua origin for perhaps 98 percent belongs to the paternal atom X (whether this also holds in the infrared spectroscopy all in all, and in the proton-resonance-absorption measurements, we [Oskar Müller, 1959] don't know). If one, by the way, determines the bond totally as to caloric (energetic) firmness and ignores every aspect of origin, then one always apprehends only certain details and certain "sides", and never the whole phenomenon. In the case of the living condition one should further always realize that the organismic condition is less the [result of the] complexification of the simple, but rather more that the inorganic is the [result of the] simplification of the "in itself" complex. [This is about the "holistic simplification" of which we spoke in Fourth Part of Website. The "lower" is derived -- by simplification -- from the "higher"]

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