...influence exerted by surrounding matter and force. Stated more fully, his conception of life becomes — ( The definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence -with external coexistences and sequences." And how extremely important this notion of reciprocal action is, has been most happily dwelt upon by...

...influence exerted by surrounding matter and force. Stated more fully, his conception of life becomes — ' The definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...both simultaneous and successive, in correspondence laith external coexistences and sequences? And how extremely important this notion of reciprocal action...

...our conception of Life. Adding this all-important chara'cteristic, our conception of Life becomes — The definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...both simultaneous and successive, in correspondence Kith external co-existences and sequences. That the full significance of this addition may be seen,...

...influence exerted by surrounding matter and force. Stated more fully, his conception of life becomes — ' The definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...both simultaneous and successive, in correspondence ,w\th external coexistences and sequences' And how extremely important this notion of reciprocal action...

...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 bo reducible to the briefer definition — " The continuous...

...the actions going on without it. Wo 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...

...qualifications of this statement, they cannot be such as to diminish its general truth. Life being the definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external co-existences and sequences, the two great divisions of life must ever be distinguished as, the one a correspondence that is both...

...environment.1 Out of the host of illustrations by which 1 The full definition runs thus: — "Life is the definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external coexistences and sequences." This is incomparably the most profound and complete definition of Life that has ever been framed ; and the...

..."common to life of all orders." The conception of life adopted by Mr. Spencer is as follows : — " The definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external coexistences and sequences." A definition which, it appears to me, does not exclude every lifeless machine that has been made, or...

...and the nervous system in its entirety. A learned scientist (Mr. Herbert Spencer), defines it to be: "The definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external co-existences and sequences." Xow when we divest this definition of its somewhat obscure verbiage, it amounts to nothing more or...