...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...Spencer's definition is well known, but is cumbersome, unsatisfactory, and not likely to be popular : — " the definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external co-existences and sequences." Declaru's '• Organisation in Action" is short and crisp and as explicit as present knowledge warrants....

...author, which he urges is an unthinkable proposition. Life is explained by Mr. Herbert Spencer as " the definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external coexistences and sequences," — an elaborate description, but one which fails to convey anything but some of the effects of life,...

...illuminate the meaning of the general principle which we call Life. To say, therefore, that " Life is the definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external coexistences and sequences," is to say that an organism is an instance of the adjustment of its internal activities to its external...

...effect of organization, and not the principle or cause of organization. Herbert Spencer defines life as "The definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external co-existences and sequences." This definition Drysdale' has pointed out to be defective, because it does not limit the changes of...

...its unnecessary complexity it accomplishes less than it purports to do. It is as follows : " Life is the definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external co-existences and sequences." Now if the terms employed in this definition are examined, it will be found that the equation which...

...certain eminent philosopher in England wil' say, whenever there shall be an England to say it in — ' is the definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external co-existences and sequences.' I have, fortunately, a few years of this before me yet; and I suppose I can permit my surroundings...