| Herbert Spencer - 1881 - 682 oldal
...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... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1881 - 642 oldal
....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 oldal
...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... | |
| Sophia Elizabeth De Morgan - 1882 - 472 oldal
...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 oldal
...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... | |
| Antonio Rosmini - 1882 - 570 oldal
...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,... | |
| Seth Pancoast - 1882 - 166 oldal
...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 oldal
...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 oldal
...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 oldal
...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... | |
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