...ammonia. These new compounds, like the elementary bodies of which they are composed, are lifeless. But when they are brought together, under certain...this protoplasm exhibits the phenomena of life. I sec no break in this series of steps in molecular complication, and I am unable to understand why the...

...they give rise to the still more complex body, protoplasm, and this protoplasm exhibits the phcenomena of life. I see no break in this series of steps in...why the language which is applicable to any one term cf the series may not be used to any of the others. We think fit to call different kinds of matter...

...ammonia. 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 more comC 1ts logical plex body, protoplasm "—and then what ? This protoplasm produces, or at least...

...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.' Carbonic acid, therefore, water and ammonia, brought together under certain conditions, c^n^titute...

...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." Two very important " breaks," however, occur in " this series of steps." First, the "certain conditions"...

...ammonia," says Prof. Huxley, " certainly possess no properties but those of ordinary matter. . . . But when they are brought together under certain conditions they give rise to protoplasm ; and this protoplasm exhibits the phenomenon of life. I see no breach in this series of...

...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.' "This sentence is pregnant of significance. It is true that when he declares that protoplasm exhibits...

...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. Ibid, p. 725. Herbert Spencer says: " Evolution, as I understand it, and creation, as usually understood,...

...they give rise to protoplasm ; and this protoplasm exhibits the phenomenon of life. I see no breach in this series of steps in molecular complication,...understand why the language which is applicable to any one form of the series may not be used of any of the others.' ' So much, then, for what modern science...

...ammonia, says Professor Huxley, ' certainly possess no properties but those of ordinary matter. . . . But when they are brought together under certain conditions they give rise to protoplasm ; and this protoplasm exhibits the phenomenon of life. I see no breach in this series of...