Into what follows, in the present and next documents, we include a large number of quotations (not always explicitly marked as such) from the division  "Ein-molekülares Leben"  in Oskar Müller's work on natural philosophy (1959). Indeed, most of what we are able to say about the unimolecular status of organisms stems from his text. This text, however, is very difficult in two respects :  1. chemically and biologically technically, concerning domains of research in which we are not professionally at home.  2. Its linguistic (in German) way of expressing things. It contains many idiosyncrasies of the author (Müller) which sometimes are difficult to grasp, let alone to translate into correct English (Even English is not my native language). And because of all this, our "translation" is not pretending to be a strict linguistic translation (although we've done our best) but, in many places, just a qualitative rendering of the text's intention, and of course, when necessary, provided with explanations (in type-writer text font). Many parts of the original text will be skipped when superfluous or entirely obscure. Nevertheless, we have done our utmost best to express Müller's ideas on Unimol. And although the text on Unimol so produced here, is still difficult and long, for those truly interested in the subject it is worth the trouble.


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