 | Percy Russell - 1882 - 220 pàgines
...not. This brings us at once to the real question at issue, What is LIFE? Herbert Spencer tells us it is " The definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with eternal co-existences and sequences." A better definition has been given by Mr. Joseph Cook, in his... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1883 - 714 pàgines
...tentative definitions, concludes with this: Life Is " the definite combination of definite composite heterogeneous changes, both simultaneous and successive,...correspondence with external coexistences and sequences." K. Vlrchow makes u the vital force to be the expression of the definite oo-worklng of physical and... | |
 | Benjamin G. Ferris - 1883 - 474 pàgines
...and in a certain sense combined in a definite manner;" and the formula with this addition reads thus: "Life is the definite combination of heterogeneous changes both simultaneous and successive " (id. 69). It seems however that the end is not reached yet— that the is to be preferred to a because... | |
 | Royal Society of Queensland, Brisbane - 1898 - 600 pàgines
...Spencer's definition is well known, but is cumbersome, unsatisfactory, and not likely to be popular : — " the definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external co-existences and sequences." Declaru's '• Organisation in Action" is short and crisp and as explicit as present knowledge warrants.... | |
 | Raymond St. James Perrin - 1885 - 604 pàgines
...in doubt as to what this fact really ^"s. Spencer's philosophy is termed by its author syn~ thetic. It purports to give us a synthesis of life, a commanding...ask the question, Does life produce organization, or docs organization produce life? is equivalent to asking whether cause produces effect, or whether effect... | |
 | Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce - 1885 - 236 pàgines
...certain eminent philosopher in England wil' say, whenever there shall be an England to say it in — ' is the definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external co-existences and sequences.' I have, fortunately, a few years of this before me yet; and I suppose I can permit my surroundings... | |
 | 1885 - 932 pàgines
...author, which he urges is an unthinkable proposition. Life is explained by Mr. Herbert Spencer as " the definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external coexistences and sequences," — an elaborate description, but one which fails to convey anything but some of the effects of life,... | |
 | 1885 - 360 pàgines
...effect of organization, and not the principle or cause of organization. Herbert Spencer defines life as "The definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external co-existences and sequences." This definition Drysdale' has pointed out to be defective, because it does not limit the changes of... | |
 | Rev. Joseph Cook - 1885 - 424 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1885 - 930 pàgines
...the subject is therefore resumed in Chapter V., in which we reach the following final form : — ". Life is the definite combination of heterogeneous...simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external coexistenccs and sequences. Or the formula may be given in this simpler form : 8. Life is the continuous... | |
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is a definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external coexistences and sequences. 
