These new compounds, like the elementary bodies of which they are composed, are lifeless. But when they are brought together under certain conditions they give rise to the still more complex body, protoplasm ; and this protoplasm exhibits the phenomena... Nature - Page 175edited by - 1870Full view - About this book
 | 1869
...and ammonia." These compounds, like the elementary bodies of which they are composed, are lifeless. " But when, they are brought together, under certain...and this protoplasm exhibits the phenomena of life." Fourth : This " living protoplasm," " under whatever disguise it takes refuge, whether fungus or oak,... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1877 - 624 pages
...which follows. This protoplasm breaks up into carbonic acid, water, and ammonia. These are lifeless, but when they are brought together under certain conditions they give rise to the complex body called protoplasm, and protoplasm exhibits the phenomena of life. "When hydrogen and oxygen... | |
 | 1869 - 718 pages
...animal. " These compounds, like tho elementary bodies of which they are composed, are lifeless. But when brought together under certain conditions they give rise to the still more complex borly, protoplasm, and this protoplasm exhibits the phenomena of life." And now we come to tho pith... | |
 | 1869 - 632 pages
...acid, water and ammonia. Carbon, oxygen, hydrogen and nitrogen are themselves lifeless bodies ; but brought together under certain conditions they give...in this series of steps in molecular complication." Huxley quite scouts the term "vitality" as useless and unmeaning; thought is but the mere " expression... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1869 - 30 pages
...ammonia. These new compounds, like the elementary bodies of which they arc composed, are lifeless. But when they are brought together, under certain...exhibits the phenomena of life. I see no break in this scries of steps in molecular complication, and I am unable to understand why the language which is... | |
 | 1869 - 880 pages
...new compounds, like the elementary bodies of which they are composed, are lifeless. But when they arc brought together, under certain conditions they give...exhibits the phenomena of life. I see no break in this scries of steps in my secular complication, and I am unable to understand why the language which is... | |
 | 1869 - 622 pages
...ammonia. These new compounds, like the elementary bodies of which they are composed, are lifeless. But when they are brought together, under certain...body, protoplasm, and this protoplasm exhibits the phenomenon of life. ' I see no break in this series of steps in molecular complication, and I am unable... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1870 - 838 pages
...ammonia. These new compounds, like the elementary bodies of which they are composed, are lifeless. But when they are brought together under certain conditions...understand why the language which is applicable to one term of the series may not be used to any of the others.1' Let us exami ne this argument and see... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1870 - 652 pages
...like the elementary bodies of which they are composed, are lifeless. But when they are brought toother under certain conditions they give rise to the still...language which is applicable to any one term of the serĂes may not be used to any of the others. We think fit to call different kinds of matter carbon,... | |
 | 1870 - 748 pages
...elementary bodies of which they are composed, are lifeless. But when they are brought together under certiin conditions they give rise to the still more complex...understand why the language which is applicable to one term of the series may not be used to any of the others." Let us examine this argument and see... | |
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