Crossword-Solution: CULES 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

But Buffon further imagined that innumerable "molécules organiques" are dispersed throughout the world, and that alimentation consists in the appropriation by the parts of an organism of those molecules which are analogous to them.

This is shown, for example, by Newton’s theory of colour, and later by Biot’s nonsense about colour rings, which yet agrees with the whole atomistic method of treating light among the French, with its _molécules de lumière_, and in general with their fixed idea of reducing everything in nature to mere mechanical effects.