 A mass of living protoplasm is simply a molecular machine of great complexity, the total results of the working of which or its vital phenomena depend on the one hand on its construction and on the other on the energy supplied to it ; and to speak of...  Science - Page 195edited by - 1883Full view - About this book
 | National Eclectic Medical Association of the United States of America - 1877 - 408 pages
...the other, upon the energy supplied to it; and to speak of it vitally, as anything but the name of a series of operations, is as if one should talk of the horologity of a clock." Here comes in the point of division between two distinct classes of equally distinguished philosophers.... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Senate - Government publications - 1877 - 1530 pages
...the other, upon the energy supplied to it ; and to speak of it vitally, as any thing but the name of a series of operations, is as if one should talk of the horologity of a clock." Here comes in the point of division between two distinct classes of equally distinguished philosophers,... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Anatomy, Comparative - 1877 - 728 pages
...the other, upon the energy supplied to it ; and to speak of " vitality " as anything but the name of a series of operations is as if one should talk of the " horologity " of a clock. Living matter, or protoplasm and the products of its metamorphosis, may be regarded under four aspects... | |
 | Spiritualism - 1877 - 598 pages
...the other, upon the energy supplied to it, and to speak of ' vitality ' as anything but the name of a series of operations is as if one should talk of the horologity of a clock." You are shocked at this proposition, and therefore I have not spoken in vain. If Hermann Lotze, the... | |
 | Joseph Cook - Biology - 1877 - 360 pages
...the other, upon the energy supplied to it : and to speak of ' vitality ' as any thing but the name of a series of operations is as if one should talk of the horologity of a clock." [Sensa> tion.] You are shocked at this proposition, and therefore I have not spoken in vain. We will... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Anatomy, Comparative - 1877 - 736 pages
...supplied to it ; and to speak f of " vitality " as anything but the name of a series of opera- 1 lions is as if one should talk of the " horologity " of a clock. ) Living matter, or protoplasm and the products of its metamorphosis, may be regarded under four aspects... | |
 | Joseph Cook - 1879 - 190 pages
...on the other, upon the energy supplied to it ; and to speak of vitality as anything but the name of a series of operations is as if one should talk of the horologity of a clock." — (Encyc. Brit., Art. Biology.) Huxley is not a materialist, you say; but I must judge men by their... | |
 | Joseph Cook - Heredity - 1879 - 136 pages
...on the other, upon the energy supplied to it ; and to speak of vitality as anything but the name of a series of operations is as if one should talk of the horologity of a clock." x Huxley is not a materialist, you say ; but I must judge men by their definitions, and, although there... | |
 | Henry Augustus Mott - Creation - 1880 - 164 pages
...the other upon the energy supplied to it; and to speak of " vitality " as anything but the names of a series of operations is as if one should talk of the "horologity" of a clock.* When hydrogen and oxygen are united by an electrical spark water is produced ; certainly there is no... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1880 - 724 pages
...on the other upon the energy supplied to it; and to speak of " vitality" as anything but the name of a series of operations, is as if one should talk of the " horology" of a clock. — (Hurley.) Other writers, objecting to this use of terms, call attention... | |
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