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
| 1877 - 670 pages
...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... | |
| Alexander Stewart (LL.D., of Aberdeen.) - 1878 - 322 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." (p. 135.) This is so written as to hide the truth, and not to bring the real facts before the mind.... | |
| Samuel Wainwright - 1881 - 350 pages
...Review, February, 1869.) 1 "But when they [the " lifeless compounds " carbonic acid, water, and ammonia] are brought together, under certain conditions, they...and this protoplasm exhibits the phenomena of life." (Ibid.) made to represent the composition of protoplasm ; much less can it be effected in practice.... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1881 - 906 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... | |
| Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1884 - 604 pages
...ammonia. These new compounds, like the elementary bodies of which they are composed, are lifeless. But when they are brought together, under certain...of life. I see no break in this series of steps in my secular complication, and I am unable to understand why the language which is applicable to any... | |
| L. F. March Phillips - 1883 - 450 pages
...equally lifeless compounds, ie carbonic acid, water, and ammonia ; he adds " But " when these three are brought together, under certain " conditions,"...give rise to the still more complex body, protoplasm, which exhibits the phenomena of life. The question then, ' How is life produced ? ' turns on the answer... | |
| Thomas Walter Barber - 1884 - 210 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.' Anyone who heard this proposition for the first time would at once say, ' Then of course if you can... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1885 - 520 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 any one in the series may not be used to any of the others. When hydrogen and oxygen are mixed in a certain... | |
| Charles Force Deems - 1885 - 114 pages
...all exist previous to their union ; "but, when they are brought together," says Professor Huxley, " under certain conditions, they give rise to the still...and this protoplasm exhibits the phenomena of life." J It is a mere dream. If you can find a substantial phoenix, or griffin, or chimera, you may find homogeneous... | |
| Victoria Institute (Great Britain) - 1885 - 426 pages
...that they all exist previous to their union ; " but when they are brought together," says Huxley, " under certain conditions, they give rise to the still...and this protoplasm exhibits the phenomena of life." } Would it not, at first sight, seem from these words that Science had at length succeeded in solving... | |
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