...the definition incomplete. Thus Herbert Spencer : " Life is conceived only when we think of it as the definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both...simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external coexistence and sequence."1 This proposition, which has about it an air of philosophic mysticism,...

...manifestations through organisms. 3. The general manifestations of this force we call general vital action. Life is " a definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both simultaneous and successive." In a dead body heterogeneous changes are going on, "both simultaneous and successive," but there is no...

...to our definition. By the addition of this all-important characteristic, life is defined as— s The definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both...simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external co-existences and sequences. (Pp. 300—308.) Or, to reduce it to its simplest terms : —...

...one of the latest attempts, let us hear Herbert Spencer's explanation of Life. He says : "It is the definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both...simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external co-existences and sequences." There ! we are not a whit the wiser, and such attempts are only...

...of internal relations to external relations ;" or more at length, but less simply : " Life, is the definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both...simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external coexistences and sequences." Now if Mr. Spencer only meant by this to indicate, that which...

...processes in its environment," supplies this all-important characteristic, and defines Life to be "the definite combination of heterogeneous changes both...simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external co-existences and sequences." A definition directly opposed to that of Bichat, who conceived...

...(general synthesis) of Mr. Herbert Spencer's 'Principles of Psychology,'! where life is defined as "the definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both...simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external coexistences and sequences." (p. 368, op. cit). It will be further seen that the degree of...

...(general synthesis) of Mr. Herbert Spencer's 'Principles of Psychology,'t where life is defined as " the definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both...simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external coexistences and sequences." (p. 368, op. dt.) It will be further seen, that the degree of...

...(general synthesis) of Mr. Herbert Spencer's ' Principles of Psychology ,'t where life is defined as " the definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both...simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external coexistences and sequences." (p. 368, op. cit.) It will be further seen that the degree of...

...Thus, whilst the poet speaks of life as " an empty dream," it is defined by the philosopher as " the definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both...simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external co-existences and sequences," This was not encouraging. After further consideration, I discovered...