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He has acted on TV many times.

He acted on the stage.

They acted on the information.

Hegel once observed that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.

I acted on his advice.

The medicine acted on his stomach.

He acted on my advice.

He acted on the matter.

For this purpose the lower end of the compound body H, which carries the object-glass, consists of a piece of smaller tube sliding in parallel guides in the main body, and kept constantly pressed upwards by a spiral spring but it can be drawn downward by a lever crossing the body, and acted on by an extremely fine screw whose milled head is seen at N, and the fineness of which is tripled by means of the lever through which it acts on the object-glass.

Here the feed is acted on mechanically.

The essential features of both are the notion that everything is alive, and the persuasion that things can be radically acted on only by using life as a factor.

There is also a remarkably large quantity of oxide of iron, which, when acted on by the humic acid, is well known to be highly prejudicial to vegetation, and that this took place was shown by the fact that the drains, a couple of months after being laid, were almost stopped up by humate of iron.

In its absence the organic matters undergo different decompositions, and pass into states in which they are slowly acted on, and are incapable of supplying a sufficient quantity of carbonic acid to the soil; and they thus exercise an action on the peroxide of iron, contained in all soils, reduce it to the state of protoxide, or, with the simultaneous reduction of the sulphuric acid, they produce sulphuret of iron, forms of combination which are well known to be most injurious to vegetation.

It is generally stated that they ought to be distributed as uniformly as possible, but this is not always necessary nor even advisable, and certainly is not acted on in practice.

From what has been said, it clearly follows, that living bodies must have some property different from dead matter, which renders them capable of being acted on by these external powers, so as to produce the living functions; for if they had not, it is evident that the only effects which these powers could produce, would be mechanical, or chemical.

Though we know not exactly in what this property consists, or in what manner it is acted on, yet we see that when bodies are possessed of it, they become capable of being acted on by external powers, so as to produce the living functions.

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