 | George Henry Lewes - Science - 1864 - 438 pages
...embraces the phenomena of vegetal life, and even there is too restricted. HERRERT SPENCER says, "Life is the definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external co-existences and sequences." In a former work, after citing these definitions, I proposed the following : — " Life is the dynamical... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1864 - 852 pages
...that it also exhibits co-ordination of actions.' His present and amended conception of life is : ' The definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external co-existences and sequences.' One of the latest definitions of life is that which has been suggested by Mr GH Lewes : ' Life is a... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Biology - 1864 - 510 pages
...be met" (First Principles, § 133) ; and more recently (§ 27), we have seen that Life itself is " the definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external co-existences and sequences." Necessarily, therefore, an organism exposed to a permanent change in the arrangement of outer forces,... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Biology - 1864 - 506 pages
...to be met " (First Principles, § 133) ; and more recently (§ 27), we have seen that Life itself is "the definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external co-existences and sequences." Necessarily, therefore, an organism exposed to a permanent change in the arrangement of outer forces,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1865 - 666 pages
...definition of Life, which after a development in as many pages results in these words: "Life is denned as — The definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external coexistences and sequences." These are sufficiently abstract to be of some scientific service, but they only make Life the more... | |
 | 1865 - 496 pages
...embraces the phenomena of vegetal life, and even then is too restricted. Herbert Spencer says, " Life is the definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external co-existences and sequences." In a former work, after citing these definitions I proposed the following : — " Life is the dynamical... | |
 | William Thomas Brande - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1866 - 992 pages
...internal movement of composition and decomposition, at once general and continuous ; ' Herbert Spencer as ' the definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external coexistences and sequences ; ' and Mr. GH Lewes as ' the dynamical condition of the organism.' The whole question of the correct... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 858 pages
...that it also exhibits co-ordination of actions.' His present and amended conception of life is : ' The definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external co-existences and sequences.' One of the latest definitions of life is that which has been suggested by Mr GH Lewes : ' Life is a... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Psychology - 1870 - 704 pages
...the actions going on without it. We saw that Life is adequately conceived only when we think of it as " the definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external co-existences and sequences." Afterwards this definition was found to be reducible to the briefer definition — "The continuous... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton - Literature - 1871 - 456 pages
...adjustment of internal relations to external relations ; " or more at length, but less simply : " Life is the definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external coexistences and sequences." Now if Mr. Spencer only means by this to indicate, that which all forms of what is ordinarily termed... | |
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is a definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external coexistences and sequences. 
