...only embraces the phenomena of vegetal life, and even there is too restricted. HERRERT SPENCER says, "Life is the definite combination of heterogeneous...correspondence with external co-existences and sequences." In a former work, after citing these definitions, I proposed the following : — " Life is the dynamical...

...actions to be met" (First Principles, § 133) ; and more recently (§ 27), we have seen that Life itself is " the definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external co-existences and sequences." Necessarily, therefore, an organism exposed to a permanent change in the arrangement of outer forces,...

...either that it has had life, or has been made by something having life. Thus then, we conclude that Life is — the definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both simultaneous and successive. § 26. Such is the conception at which we arrive without changing our stand-point. It is, however,...

...only embraces the phenomena of vegetal life, and even then is too restricted. Herbert Spencer says, " Life is the definite combination of heterogeneous...correspondence with external co-existences and sequences." In a former work, after citing these definitions I proposed the following: — " Life is the dynamical...

...of Life, which after a development in as many pages results in these words: "Life is denned as — The definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external coexistences and sequences." These are sufficiently abstract to be of some scientific service, but they only make Life the more...

...movement of composition and decomposition, at once general and continuous ; ' Herbert Spencer as ' the definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external coexistences and sequences ; ' and Mr. GH Lewes as ' the dynamical condition of the organism.' Tho whole question of the correct...

...either that it has had life, or has been made by something having life. Thus then, we conclude that Life is — the definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both simultaneous and successive. § 26. Such is the conception at which we arrive without changing our stand-point. It is, however,...

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

...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 it was shown that to develop this proximate idea into a complete idea, it is needful...

...continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations ; " or more at length, but less simply : " Life is the definite combination of heterogeneous...correspondence with external coexistences and sequences." Now if Mr. Spencer only means by this to indicate, that which all forms of what is ordinarily termed...