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" 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 175
edited by - 1870
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Chicago Medical Examiner: A Monthly Journal Devoted to the ..., Volume 13

Nathan Smith Davis - 1872 - 396 pages
...that " these compounds, like the elementary bodies of which they are composed, are lifeless. BuUwhen they are brought together, under certain conditions,...and this protoplasm exhibits the phenomena of life." We call different kinds of matter carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, and nitrogen, and speak of the various...
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The Dublin Review, Volume 72

Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1873 - 592 pages
...ammonia. These new compounds, like the elementary bodies of which they are composed, are lifeless. But when they are brought together, under certain...this series of steps in molecular complication, and am unable to understand why the language which is applicable to one term ot the series may not be used...
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The Human Mind: A System of Mental Philosophy for the General Reader

James Gracey Murphy - 1873 - 360 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,...and this protoplasm exhibits the phenomena of life." — P. 1,49. " If the properties of water may be properly said to result from the nature and disposition...
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Catholic progress, Volume 2

Young men's Catholic assoc - 1873 - 302 pages
...together under certain conditions — [observe the "certain conditions" again, ergo à pari of course] — they give rise to the still more complex body protoplasm,...and this protoplasm exhibits the phenomena of life. — "Lay Sermons," p. 135. 50 far Mr. Huxley. It is rather more than 1910 years since the Roman philosopher-poet...
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The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 4

1874 - 800 pages
...ammonia. These new 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." So that, if living matter has once arisen naturally and independently, the laws of uniformity alone,...
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Evolution and the Origin of Life

H. Charlton Bastian - 1874 - 216 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,...and this protoplasm exhibits the phenomena of life." Again we know that the properties and chemical tendencies of compounds and elementary substances are...
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What is Darwinism?

Charles Hodge - 1874 - 190 pages
...the four elements, — carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen. These are lifeless bodies, " but when brought together under certain conditions, they give...and this protoplasm exhibits the phenomena of life." There is no more reason, he teaches, for assuming the existence of a mysterious something called vitality...
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The Development of Creation on the Earth

Thomas Lumisden Strange - 1874 - 132 pages
...Carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen, . . . when they are brought together, under certain conditions, give rise to the still more complex body, protoplasm,...and this protoplasm exhibits the phenomena of life " (Ibid. 126-129, 135). Life introduced by means of this plastic protoplasm works out in the system...
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The Mysteries of Christianity: Being the Baird Lecture for 1874

Thomas J. Crawford - 1874 - 446 pages
...lifeless as the elementary bodies of which they are composed," proceeds to say that " when these elements are brought together, UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS they give rise to the still more complex body called protoplasm ; and this protoplasm exhibits the phenomena of life" Mark, I beseech you, the postulate...
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Report of the Proceedings

Church congress - 1877 - 642 pages
...this account of the origin of living matter—" Carbonic acid, water, and ammonia are lifeless bodies, but when they are brought together, under certain...and this protoplasm exhibits the phenomena of life." There are certain propositions that it is a waste of reason to treat seriously. If I were to tell you...
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