Note 260

The living system can be taken, in its whole condition, and in the whole range of temperature, as a fully dissolved (hydratized) one-emulsoid, in which the emphasis must be concentrated completely onto the special uncomparable substrate of that emulsoid. As a result of successive boundary layers becoming more and more similar to the purely aqueous dispersion medium (Exception is the outer shell of the gross denaturation membrane), the mega-molecule, moreover, is, so to say, truly solved [in water as solvent], i.e. so many criteria of a true solution do hold, especially from the standpoint of interacting inter-molecular forces, that one cannot ignore to apply this concept [the concept of (aqueous) solution of the mega-molecule] at least meaningfully, albeit not strictly physically.

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