| Philosophy - 1874 - 406 pages
...of a most remarkable work, The Beginnings of lAfe, enlarging the latter definition, says life is " the definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external coexistences and sequences." Passing from the physicists to the great German thinkers, we find that KANT says: "An organized product... | |
| John James Drysdale - Cytoplasm - 1874 - 336 pages
...substance, such as the protoplasm, I must object also to the definition of Mr. Spencer himself, viz. : "The definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with .external co-existences and sequences." Here is recognized, after John Brown and Fletcher, the fact that .certain actions in correspondence... | |
| Popular encyclopedia - 1875 - 532 pages
...perturbations, that it also exhibits co-ordination of actions." His amended conception of life is : ' The definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external coexistences and sequences.' Mr. GH Lewes suggests the definition: 'Life is a series of definite and successive changes, both of... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1875 - 870 pages
...Mr. Fiske, " to be but the highest form of Life," and life, as admirably defined by Mr. Spencer, " is the definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external co-existences and sequences." Truly the study of the higher forms of these phenomena may be called a specialised part of biology.... | |
| Emile Honoré Cazelles - Evolution - 1875 - 198 pages
...nature of life; and the idea of adaptation was developed into the conception that life itself " is the definite combination of heterogeneous changes...correspondence with external coexistences and sequences." It is argued that the degree of life varies with the degree of correspondence, and that all mental... | |
| Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie, Joseph Henry Allen - Unitarianism - 1875 - 664 pages
...should manifest the phenomena we call life, or why, evolutionistically phrased, it should present a " definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both...correspondence with external co-existences and sequences," f the evolutionist does not profess to know any more than we know why elements, chemically combined,... | |
| William Thomas Brande, George William Cox - Art - 1875 - 982 pages
...composition and decomposition, at once general and continuous ; ' Herbert Spencer as ' the définit« combination of heterogeneous changes, both simultaneous...correspondence with external coexistences and ] sequences ; ' and Mr. GH Lewes as ' the 1 dynamical condition of the organism.' The ¡ whole question of the... | |
| Theology - 1897 - 574 pages
...terms of matter, motion, and force,' as, eg, those of Mr. Herbert Spencer, break down. His account of life as ' The definite combination of heterogeneous...correspondence with external co-existences and sequences,' is probably to most living men utterly meaningless. But so far as by mental effort it can be understood,... | |
| Nathan Howard (Jr.) - Civil procedure - 1872 - 646 pages
...of Coffey agt. The Home Life Ins. Co. the greatest of modern thinkers. It is, that life consists in the definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external co-existences and sequences, or, in other words, in the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations. Consequently... | |
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