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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In lithology, a term used by a few writers on chemical geology with various shades of meaning, but chiefly in propounding certain theories of the transformation of one rock into another of a very different kind (as of limestone into granite), changes recognized as possible by but few geologists. See
metamorphism .
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In his Acknowledgements he has this to say about a book titled The Enlightenment of the Whole Body--"the works of Da Free John offer some of the clearest and most straight forward descriptions of metasomatosis that I have ever read"
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Yet that this transference does occur is evident from the facts of animal metasomatosis.
The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952
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