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Quotation from The Chemical History of a Candle by Michael Faraday
“So are we made dependent, not merely upon our fellow-creatures, but upon our fellow-existers, all Nature being tied together by the laws that make one part conduce to the good of another.”
The Chemical History of a Candle, Lecture VI (Project Gutenberg text (1908 Chatto and Windus impression, ed. William Crookes))
Having shown that the carbonic acid breathed out by animals feeds plants, Faraday draws the general lesson.
Citation: "So are we made dependent, not merely upon our fellow-creatures, but upon our fellow-existers, all Nature being tied together by the laws that make one part conduce to the good of another." — Michael Faraday, The Chemical History of a Candle, Lecture VI (Project Gutenberg text (1908 Chatto and Windus impression, ed. William Crookes)). (id faraday-chemical-history-of-a-candle-q6)
Portrait: M Faraday Th Phillips oil 1842, Thomas Phillips, Public domain.
