... all vital action may, with equal propriety, be said to be the 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,... American Presbyterian Review - Page 326redigeeritud poolt - 1871Full view - About this book
| James Hutchison Stirling - 1870 - 80 lehte
...audience, "the thoughts to which I am now giving utterance, and your thoughts regarding them, are but the expression of molecular changes in that matter of life which is the source of our other vital phenomena." And, so far, I think, we shall not disagree with Mr. Huxley when he says... | |
| 1870 - 816 lehte
..."that the thoughts to which I am now giving vent, and your thoughts regarding them, are the expansion of molecular changes in that matter of life which is the source of our other vital phenomena." But what, then, causes the molecular changes 1 To that question there is... | |
| 1870 - 856 lehte
...that the thoughts to which I am now giving vent, and your thoughts regarding them, are the expansion of molecular changes in that matter of life which is the source of our other vital phenomena." But what, then, causes the molecular changes ? To that question there is... | |
| Alfred Russel Wallace - 1871 - 412 lehte
...all the physical properties of organized beings are due to the physical properties of protoplasm. So far we might, perhaps, follow him, but he does not...changes in that matter of life which is the source of our other vital phenomena" Not having been able to find any clue in Professor Huxley's writings, to... | |
| Alfred Russel Wallace - 1871 - 434 lehte
...all the physical properties of organized beings are due to the physical properties of protoplasm. So far we might, perhaps, follow him, but he does not...molecular changes in that matter of life which is tlie source of our other vital phenomena." Not having been able to find any clue in Professor Huxley's... | |
| John Henry Pratt - 1871 - 458 lehte
...same extent, that the thoughts to which I am now giving utterance, and your thoughts regarding them, are the expression of molecular changes in that matter...life which is the source of other vital phenomena.'* How this differs from materialism I find it impossible to see. And yet the author adds, ' I am no materialist,... | |
| James McCosh - 1871 - 410 lehte
...the sense of right and wrong which he finds in uncivilized tribes. After quoting Mr. Huxley, who says that " our thoughts are the expression of molecular...changes in that matter of life which is the source of our other vital phenomena," Mr. Wallace remarks that he has not been able to find the clew by which... | |
| 1871 - 442 lehte
...Huxley, in his lecture on " The Physical Basis of Life," finds no way to avoid the concession that all our thoughts are " the expression of molecular changes in that matter of life which is the source of our other vital phenomena." The theory of evolution is everywhere rapidly superseding the doctrine... | |
| 1871 - 674 lehte
...mind and body. It is the fact of the organic unity of man which is the strength of the theory that " thoughts are the expression of molecular changes in that matter of life which is the source of our other vital phenomena," and that vital phenomena (in which thoughts have just been numbered) stands... | |
| 1871
...function in connection with its spCL'ial organ. If Mr. Huxley maintains that his thoughts and ours are " the expression of molecular changes in that matter of life which is the source of our other vital phenomena; " ' if the Rev. Prof. Haughton suggests, though in the most guarded way,... | |
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