...adjustment of internal relations to external relations ; " or more at length, but less simply : " Life is the definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external coexistences and sequences." Now if Mr. Spencer only means by this to indicate, that which all forms of what is ordinarily termed...

...influence exerted by surrounding matter and force. Stated more fully, his conception of life becomes — ( The definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence -with external coexistences and sequences." And how extremely important this notion of reciprocal action is, has been most happily dwelt upon by Mr....

...our conception of Life. Adding this all-important chara'cteristic, our conception of Life becomes — The definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...both simultaneous and successive, in correspondence Kith external co-existences and sequences. That the full significance of this addition may be seen,...

...influence exerted by surrounding matter and force. Stated more fully, his conception of life becomes — ' The definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...both simultaneous and successive, in correspondence ,w\th external coexistences and sequences' And how extremely important this notion of reciprocal action...

...influence exerted by surrounding matter and force. Stated more fully, his conception of life becomes — ' The definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...both simultaneous and successive, in correspondence laith external coexistences and sequences? And how extremely important this notion of reciprocal action...

...the actions going on without it. We saw that Life is adequately conceived only when we think of it as " the definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external co-existences and sequences." Afterwards this definition was found to bo reducible to the briefer definition — " The continuous...

...the actions going on without it. Wo saw that Life is adequately conceived only when we think of it as " the definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external co-existences and sequences." Afterwards this definition was found to be reducible to the briefer definition — " The continuous...

...qualifications of this statement, they cannot be such as to diminish its general truth. Life being the definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external co-existences and sequences, the two great divisions of life must ever be distinguished as, the one a correspondence that is both...

...of a most remarkable work, The Beginnings of lAfe, enlarging the latter definition, says life is " the definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external coexistences and sequences." Passing from the physicists to the great German thinkers, we find that KANT says: "An organized product...

...ranks in scientific circles as one of the greatest of modern thinkers. It is, that Life consists in the definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external coexistences and sequences, or in other words, in the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations. Consequently,...