Note 339

Albeit that one could simplify it [the meaning of the name] malignantly -- after the disastrous example of Darwin's "ape-descent" -- when one, for instance, interprets this name [the one "molecule"] by saying that according to this view [Unimol] he, i.e. any human being, is not anything different from a grain of salt or a drop of petrol.

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