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When life leaps in the veins, when it beats in the heart, — Life

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"When life leaps in the veins, when it beats in the heart, When it thrills as it fills every animate part, Where lurks it? how works it? * * * we scarcely detect it."
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Life is matter that has biological processes, such as signaling and the ability to sustain itself. It is defined descriptively by the capacity for homeostasis, organisation, metabolism, growth, adaptation, response to stimuli, and reproduction. All life eventually reaches a state of death, and none is immortal. Many philosophical definitions of living systems have been proposed, such as self-organ