| Charles Dickens - 1881 - 642 pagina’s
....time, contrived, with great ingenuity, to be just a trifle more enigmatical, where he pronounces life 'the definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...both simultaneous and successive in correspondence' — these are his very words — ' with external coexistences and sequences." George Henry Lewes, in... | |
| Antonio Rosmini - 1882 - 566 pagina’s
...to external relations." Bastian (The Beginnings of Life, vol. ip 71) enlarges this definition into " Life is the definite combination of heterogeneous...correspondence with external co-existences and sequences." It will be seen at a glance that, between these definitions and that given by Rosmini, there is only... | |
| Antonio Rosmini - 1882 - 570 pagina’s
...to external relations." Bastian (The Beginnings of Life, vol. ip 71) enlarges this definition into " Life is the definite combination of heterogeneous...successive, in correspondence with external co-existences arid sequences." It will be seen at a glance that, between these definitions and that given by Rosmini,... | |
| Sophia Elizabeth De Morgan - 1882 - 472 pagina’s
...show that it was the result of a simple oversight. It appears that the quotation should have stood ' the definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external co-existences and sequences.' I do not presume to enter here into any discussion of the definition, and therefore only cite it that... | |
| Edward W. Badger, William Hillhouse - 1882 - 620 pagina’s
...environment " — the " egoism and the altruism " — that wonderful description which he gives of life as " the definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external co-existences and sequences" — or simpler, "the adjustment of internal to external relations" — are familiar in our mouths as... | |
| Seth Pancoast - 1882 - 166 pagina’s
...change, as Herbert Spencer and others would have us believe. His definition of life-action is : "A definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both...correspondence with external co-existences and sequences." Or, as GH Lewis defines it, " A series of definite and successive changes, both of structure and composition,... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1882 - 322 pagina’s
...of generalizations set forth in those works. Especially will he be reminded of the proposition that Life is " the definite combination of heterogeneous...simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with coexistences and seqnencegy-' and still more of that abridged and less specific formula, in which Life... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1882 - 682 pagina’s
...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... | |
| Edward Dillon Mapother - 1882 - 720 pagina’s
...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... | |
| Henry Drummond - 1883 - 456 pagina’s
...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... | |
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