 It may seem a small thing to admit that the dull, vital actions of a fungus, or a foraminifer, are the properties of their protoplasm, and are the direct results of the nature of the matter of which they are composed.  Autobiography and Selected Essays - Side 113af Thomas Henry Huxley - 1909 - 138 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1869 - 30 sider
...placing your feet on the first rung of a ladder which, in most people's estimation, is the reverse of Jacob's, and leads to the antipodes of heaven. It...matter of which they are composed. But if, as I have endeavored to prove to you, their protoplasm is essentially identical with. and most readily converted... | |
 | 1869 - 880 sider
...proposition are unquestionably materialistic, and yet denies that he is individually a materialist " It may seem a small thing to admit that the dull vital actions of a fungus, or a foriminifer, are the properties of their protoplasm, and are the direct results of the nature of the... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1870 - 444 sider
...placing your feet on the first rung of a ladder which, in most people's estimation, is the reverse of Jacob's, and leads to the antipodes of heaven. It...dull vital actions of a fungus, or a foraminifer, arc the properties of their protoplasm, and are the direct results of the nature of the matter of which... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1870 - 312 sider
...the dull vital actions of a fungus, or the foraminifera, are the properties of their protoplasm, and the direct results of the nature of the matter of which they are composed, and the further concession that all vital actions may with equal propriety be said to be the result... | |
 | James Hutchison Stirling - 1870 - 80 sider
...does not prove. He merely says that, if we admit the functions of the lowest forms of life to be but " direct results of the nature of the matter of which they are composed," we must admit as much for the functions of the highest. We have not admitted Mr. Huxley's presupposition... | |
 | 1871 - 742 sider
...placing your feet on the first rung of a ladder which, in most people's estimation, is the reverse of Jacob's, and leads to the antipodes of heaven. It...matter of which they are composed. But if, as I have endeavored to prove to you, their protoplasm is essentially identical with, and most readily converted... | |
 | 1871 - 318 sider
...not prove. He merely says tjiat, if we admit the functions of the lowest forms of life to be but " direct results of the nature of the matter of which they are composed," we must admit as much for the functions of the highest. We have not admitted Mr. Huxley's presupposition... | |
 | William George Williams - 1872 - 388 sider
...placing your feet on the first rung of a ladder which, in most people's estimation, is the reverse of Jacob's, and leads to the antipodes of heaven. It...nature of the matter of which they are composed." Here we are told, in direct terms, that the vital action is a property of protoplasmic matter. And... | |
 | Charles Hodge - 1873 - 672 sider
...placing your feet on the first rung of a ladder, which in most people's estimation is the reverse of Jacob's, and leads to the antipodes of heaven. It...matter of which they are composed. But if, as I have endeavored to prove to you, their protoplasm is essentially identical with, and most readily converted... | |
 | William George Williams - 1873 - 380 sider
...placing your feet on the first rung of a ladder which, in most people's estimation, is the reverse of Jacob's, and leads to the antipodes of heaven. It...foraminifer, are the properties of *their protoplasm, arid are the direct results of the nature of the matter of which they are composed." Here we are told,... | |
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