Prove that, for compact surfaces, the zeroth Betti number is the number of components of the surface, where a component is a connected subset of the surface, such that any larger containing subset is not connected.

Life are infinitely contracted, and that ſhe lies aſleep or dead to her largeſt Faculties ; and that therefore the excitation of them is her expergefaction into infinitely a more ample Sphere of Life.

My bird's loads fitter than yours.

Neither actually […] nor passively.