I can discover no logical halting-place between the admission that such is the case, and the further concession that all vital action may, with equal propriety, be said to be the result of the molecular forces of the protoplasm which displays it. And... Proceedings - Page 19by Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1870Full view - About this book
| 1869
...and unchangeable in themselves," is at no pains to conceal his opinion that " all vital action" is " loud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddling-band for it, an But what are molecular forces ? What is a molecule ? Is it merely (as by some scientific writers of... | |
| Arminianism - 1879 - 1042 pages
...in matter... the promise and potency of all terrestrial life ' (Dr. Tyndall). ' All vital action may be said to be the result of the molecular forces of the protoplasm which displays it. And if BO, it must be true in the same sense, and to the same extent, that the rudeness and discourtesy in... | |
| 822 pages
...in the Fortnightly Review, he has made the mighty leap, and proclaimed that " all vital action may be said to be the result of the molecular forces of the protoplasm which displays it. And, if so, it most be true in the same sense, and to the same extent, that the thoughts to which I am now giving... | |
| Medicine - 1869 - 718 pages
...protoplasm result from the nature and disposition of its molecules." In other words, " all vital action may be said to be the result of the molecular forces of the protoplasm which displays it." Professor Huxley then proceeds to point out that the terms of these propositions are distinctly materialistic,... | |
| 1869 - 350 pages
...haltingplace between the admission that such is the case, and the further concession that all vital action may, with equal propriety, be said to be the result...protoplasm which displays it. And if so, it must be true, in the same sense, and to the same extent, that the thoughts to which I am now giving utterance; and... | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley - Protoplasm - 1869 - 30 pages
...place between the admission that such is the case, and the further concession that all vital action may, with equal propriety, be said to be the result...protoplasm which displays it. And if so, it must be true, in the same sense and to the same extent, that the thoughts to which I am now giving utterance, and... | |
| 1869 - 880 pages
...between the admission that such is the case, and the further concession that all vital action nuv, with equal propriety, be said to be the result of...protoplasm which displays it. And if so, it must be true, in the same sense and to the same extent, that the thoughts to which I am no* giving utterance, and... | |
| Charles Elam - Medicine - 1869 - 420 pages
...says Dr. Maudesley.6 Professor Huxley is still more precise. He says 6 " that all vital action may be said to be the result of the molecular forces of...protoplasm which displays it. And if so, it must be true, in the same sense and to the same extent, that the thoughts to which I am now giving utterance, and... | |
| Charles Elam - Medicine - 1869 - 432 pages
...Professor Huxley is still more precise. He says 6 " that all vital action may be said to be the J <J result of the molecular forces of the protoplasm which displays it. And if so, it must be true, in the same sense and to the same extent, that the thoughts to which I am now giving utterance, and... | |
| Edward HAUGHTON (M.D.) - 1869 - 106 pages
...Professor Huxley (in his article 'On the Physical Basis of Life'), to wit, that ' all vital action may be said to be the result of the molecular forces of the protoplasm which displays it,' and that the thoughts to which he now gives utterance ' are the expression of molecular changes in that... | |
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