... of an electric spark, which traverses a mixture of oxygen and hydrogen? What justification is there, then, for the assumption of the existence in the living matter of a something which has no representative, or correlative, in the not living matter... Nature - Page 175edited by - 1870Full view - About this book
| 1869 - 718 pages
...was formed, and then guided the aqueous particles to their places in the facets of the crystal. . . . What justification is there, then, for the assumption...correlative in the not living matter which gave rise to it 'i What better philosophical status has ' vitality ' than 'aquosity'?" The influence of proexisting1... | |
| 1869 - 350 pages
...comprehend the modus operandi of an electric spark, which traverses a mixture of oxygen and hydrogen ? "What justification is there, then, for the assumption...representative or correlative in the not living matter, gave rise to it ? What better philosophical status has 'vitality' than 'aquosity?' And why should 'vitality'... | |
| Joseph John Murphy - 1869 - 312 pages
...comprehend the modus operandi of an electric spark which traverses a mixture of oxygen and hydrogen ? What justification is there, then, for the assumption...correlative in the not living matter which gave rise to it ? What better philosophical status has ' vitality ' than ' aquosity ? '" This reasoning, on a first... | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley - 1869 - 30 pages
...comprehend the modas operandl of an electric spark, which traverses a mixture of oxygen and hydrogen ? What justification is there, then, for the assumption...correlative in the not living matter which gave rise to it ? What better philosophical status has " vitality" than " aquosity ?" And why should " vitality" hope... | |
| James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1869 - 506 pages
...existence as when I speak of a magnetic force or of a force of gravitation. Professor Huxley asks, "What justification is there, then, for the assumption...matter of a something which has no representative or correlation in the not living matter which gave rise to it ? " Surely the question, thus put, involves... | |
| 1869 - 622 pages
...comprehend the modus operand* of an electric spark, which traverses a mixture of oxygen and hydrogen ? ' What justification is there, then, for the assumption...matter of a something which has no representative or correlation in the not living matter which gave rise to it ? What better philosophical status has "... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1870 - 548 pages
...of pre-existing protoplasm, an equivalent weight of the matter of life makes its appearance? . . . What justification is there, then, for the assumption...the views I have been endeavouring to support.) Now I maintain that the logical outcome of such doctrines as these is that Life may manifest itself whenever... | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley - 1870 - 448 pages
...comprehend the modus operandi of an electric spark, which traverses a mixture of oxygen and hydrogen ? What justification is there, then, for the assumption...correlative, in the not living matter which gave rise to it \ What better philosophical status has " vitality " than " aquosity " ? And why should " vitality "... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1870 - 312 pages
...itself. Professor Huxley's question, in the notorious Edinburgh address, " What justification is there for the assumption of the existence in the living...correlative in the not living matter which gave rise to it ?" has been so frequently and easily answered, that I am almost inclined to apologise for alluding... | |
| 1870 - 934 pages
...existence as when I speak of a magnetic force or of a force of gravitation. i Professor Huxley asks, "What justification is there, then, for the assumption...matter of a something which has no representative or correlation in the not living matter which gave rise to it?" Surely the question, thus put, involves... | |
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