...reproduction, or the relations between matter and spirit ? What is life 2 Herbert Spencer defines life to be " the definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external coexistences and sequences." Clear as mud ! Poverty of knowledge is often hidden under ponderous, phrases. The phenomena of human...

...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...

....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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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,...

...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...

...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...