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" is a definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external coexistences and sequences. "
Biology, with Preludes on Current Events - Page 129
by Joseph Cook - 1877 - 325 pages
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Superior Court of ..., Volume 35

New York (State). Superior Court (New York), James Clark Spencer, Samuel Jones - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 646 pages
...ranks in scientific circles as one of the greatest of modern thinkers. It is, that Life consists in the definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external coexistences and sequences, or in other words, in the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations. Consequently,...
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The Journal of speculative philosophy: Ed. by Wm. T. Harris. microform, Volume 8

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...
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The Protoplasmic Theory of Life

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...
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The popular encyclopedia; or, 'Conversations Lexicon': [ed. by A. Whitelaw ...

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...
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Nature, Volume 12

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....
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Outline of the Evolution-philosophy

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...
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Unitarian Review and Religious Magazine, Volume 3

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,...
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A Dictionary of Science, Literature, & Art: Comprising the ..., Volume 2

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...
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The Church Quarterly Review, Volume 43

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,...
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Practice Reports in the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals, Volume 44

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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