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" A mass of living protoplasm is simply a molecular machine of great complexity, the total results of the working of which, or its vital phenomena, depend on the one hand upon its construction, and on the other, upon the energy supplied to it; and to speak... "
Heredity, with Preludes on Current Events - Page 40
by Joseph Cook - 1879 - 268 pages
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Biology: With Preludes on Current Events

Joseph Cook - 1877 - 360 pages
...form of merely physical force. But Huxley says, and be amazed all men who hold the Ariadne clew, " A mass of living protoplasm is simply a molecular...energy supplied to it : and to speak of ' vitality ' as any thing but the name of a series of operations is as if one should talk of the horologity of a clock."...
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Biology, with Preludes on Current Events

Joseph Cook - 1877 - 370 pages
...form of merely physical force. But Huxley says, and be amazed all men who hold the Ariadne clew, " A mass of living protoplasm is simply a molecular...one hand, on its construction, and, on the other, iipon the energy supplied to it : and to speak of ' vitality ' as any thing but the name of a series...
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A Manual of the Anatomy of Invertebrated Animals

Thomas Henry Huxley - 1877 - 728 pages
...or " vitality " are entities playing the part of efficient causes of electrical or vital phenomena. A mass of living protoplasm is simply a molecular...which, or its vital phenomena, depend, on the one hand, upon its construction, and, on the other, upon the energy supplied to it ; and to speak of " vitality...
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Transactions of the National Eclectic Medical Association of the ..., Volume 5

National Eclectic Medical Association of the United States of America - 1877 - 408 pages
...and all other distinguished specialists within our knowledge. NATIONAL ECLECTIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. which, or its vital phenomena, depend, on the one...other, upon the energy supplied to it; and to speak of it vitally, as anything but the name of a series of operations, is as if one should talk of the horologity...
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Documents of the Senate of the State of New York, Volume 4

New York (State). Legislature. Senate - 1877 - 1530 pages
...emanate from living protoplasm — a mass of structureless, transparent, fluid jelly. Huxley says : " A mass of living protoplasm is simply a molecular...complexity, the total results of the working of which, or ite vital phenomena, depend, on the one hand, on its construction, and on the other, upon the energy...
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A Manual of the Anatomy of Invertebrated Animals

Thomas Henry Huxley - 1877 - 736 pages
...playing the part of efficient causes •'f electrical or vital phenomena. A mass of living protoO plasm is simply a molecular machine of great complexity,...total results of the working of which, or its vital pheno- I mena, depend, on the one hand, upon its construction, and, V. 'm the other, upon the energy...
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Boston Monday Lectures: Heredity

Joseph Cook - 1879 - 302 pages
...from ever getting out of place ? How much must be meant by elective affinities in Darwin's hypothesis? It can be called a theory only by courtesy. Materialism...energy supplied to it ; and to speak of vitality as any thing but the name of a series of operations is as if one should talk of the horologity of a clock."...
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Library of Universal Knowledge: A Reprint of the Last (1880 ..., Volume 1

1880 - 724 pages
...and "vitality" are entities playing the part of efficient causes of electrical or vital phenomena. " A mass of living protoplasm is simply a molecular...complexity, the total results of the working of which, of its vital phenomena, depend on the one hand upon its construction, and on the other upon the energy...
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Was Man Created?

Henry Augustus Mott - 1880 - 164 pages
...complexity, the total result of the work of which, or its vital phenomena, depend on the one hand upon its construction, and on the other upon the energy...it; and to speak of " vitality " as anything but the names of a series of operations is as if one should talk of the "horologity" of a clock.* When hydrogen...
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Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society

Royal Microscopical Society (Great Britain) - 1881 - 1116 pages
...— without defining what he means by the words " molecular " and " machine " — assures his readers that " a mass of living protoplasm is simply a molecular...which, or its vital phenomena, depend, on the one hand, upon its construction, and, on the otner, upon the energy supplied to it ; and to speak of vitality...
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