...the Principles of Biology. In Part I., Chap. IV. of that work, the proximate idea we arrived at was that Life is " the definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both simultaneous and successive." In the next chapter ifc was shown that to develop this proximate idea into a complete idea, ifc is needful...

...without destroying its identity. Herbert Spencer : Life is the definite combination of heterogenous changes, both simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external co-existences and sequences; or, more briefly : Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations. Kiiss...

...if we follow rather the newer biological lines of Mr. Herbert Spencer. According to his definition, Life is " The definite combination of heterogeneous...correspondence with external co-existences and sequences," l or more shortly "The continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations." 2 An example...

...interesting question, let ns notice Mr. Spencer's definition of life. When fully elaborated, it is this: " The definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external co-existences and sequences." In this definition he claims to have established a formula, under whose terms nothing else than a living...

...life, mind, society, in the same method, assuming that they are self -produced. He defines life as "the definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external co-existences and sequences." And evolution, he says, is "a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent...

...but the proportion of words to things is unduly high. When we come upon his definition of Life as " the definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external coexistences and sequences," we doubt whether we gain thereby . any real accession of knowledge— whether the definition embodies...

...of a double face of a somewhat? Herbert Spencer's definition of life came to my mind : " Life is a definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both...correspondence with external coexistences and sequences." All these definitions violate the first principles of clear and definite thinking, and seem to have...

...generalizations set forth in those works. Especially will he be reminded of tho proposition that Life is " tho definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both...correspondence with external coexistences and sequences;'' and still more of that abridged and less specific formula, in which Life is said to bo " the continuous...

...universe is what it is ; if it acts upon us, we react upon it. Thus Herbert Spencer has denned life to be "the definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external coexistence and sequences." The hypothesis of evolution in its scientific aspect presents three factors,...

...have been analyzed, and — ' the idea of adaptation developed into the conception that life itself "is the definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...simultaneous and successive in correspondence with eternal coexistence and sequences." ' Now to the masses who are pardonably curious concerning this...