...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...

...interesting question, let ns notice Mr. Spencer's definition of life. When fully elaborated, it is this: " The definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external co-existences and sequences." In this definition he claims to have established a formula, under whose terms nothing else than a living...

...but the proportion of words to things is unduly high. When we come upon his definition of Life as " the definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external coexistences and sequences," we doubt whether we gain thereby . any real accession of knowledge— whether the definition embodies...

...life, mind, society, in the same method, assuming that they are self -produced. He defines life as "the definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external co-existences and sequences." And evolution, he says, is "a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent...

...generalizations set forth in those works. Especially will he be reminded of tho proposition that Life is " tho definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both...correspondence with external coexistences and sequences;'' and still more of that abridged and less specific formula, in which Life is said to bo " the continuous...

...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...

...universe is what it is ; if it acts upon us, we react upon it. Thus Herbert Spencer has denned life to be "the definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external coexistence and sequences." The hypothesis of evolution in its scientific aspect presents three factors,...

...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...

...have been analyzed, and — ' the idea of adaptation developed into the conception that life itself "is the definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...simultaneous and successive in correspondence with eternal coexistence and sequences." ' Now to the masses who are pardonably curious concerning this...

...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...