 | Herbert Spencer - 1910 - 666 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 it was shown that to develop this proximate idea into a complete idea, it is needful... | |
 | Singleton Waters Davis - 1910 - 170 pagina’s
...and quotes his former technical definitions of life, viz : " The definite combination of heterogenous changes, both simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external co-existences and sequences," and in briefer phraseology and less specific formula, " the continuous adjustment of internal relations... | |
 | 1911 - 860 pagina’s
...bodily functions indicate the presence of disease or ill health. Herbert Spencer defined life to be : The definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external co-existences and sequences," or, briefly stated, "the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations." Therefore,... | |
 | Lester Frank Ward - 1920 - 808 pagina’s
...interesting question, let us notice Mr. Spencer's definition of life. "Wlien fully elaborated, it is this: "The definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external co-existencea and sequences." In this definition he claims to have established a formula, under whose... | |
 | Borden Parker Bowne - 1912 - 464 pagina’s
...the definition of life, which he now extends to include mind. The definition of life is as follows: "Life is the definite combination of heterogeneous...correspondence with external coexistences and sequences." This, for sake of convenience, is afterward cut down to the form that life is "the continuous adjustment... | |
 | John Calvin Kimball - 1913 - 344 pagina’s
...going to the other extreme, that "it is itself death." Herbert Spencer's famous statement of it as a "definite combination of heterogeneous changes both...correspondence with external co-existences and sequences," while setting forth admirably its phenomena, fails to set forth the thing itself; is like speaking... | |
 | Alfred Sidgwick - 1914 - 274 pagina’s
...of the attempts to define " Life " may serve as examples ; for instance, Herbert Spencer's phrase " the definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external co-existences and sequences." The sixth rule is directed against one special form of defining per obscurum — namely where the word... | |
 | George H. Bennett - 1914 - 170 pagina’s
...God, whom they ought to worship. (3) THE ORIGIN OP EARTHLY LIFE. Herbert Spencer defined life as being "the definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external co-existences and sequences, the degree of life varying with the degree of correspondence." Life was also regarded by him as the... | |
 | Charles Judson Herrick - 1915 - 368 pagina’s
...after many pages of close argument and rather formidable verbal gymnastics, arrived at this formula: Life is "the definite combination of heterogeneous...correspondence with external coexistences and sequences"; or, more briefly, "The continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations." A somewhat... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne, Waldo Ralph Browne, Scofield Thayer - 1915 - 652 pagina’s
...event was the inevitable result; just as you may " explain " it by saying that it was the result of a "definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both...correspondence with external co-existences and sequences," or, more simply, "the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations." It must be... | |
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is a definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external coexistences and sequences. 
