 ... 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
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1875 - 454 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...proceeds to bridge over that chasm which Professor Tyndnll has declared to be " intellectually impassable," and, by means which he states to be logical,... | |
 | Robert Patterson - 1875 - 554 lehte
...infer a power called aquosity, to account for the generation of water from oxygen and hydrogen ; and that our thoughts are the expression of molecular...changes in that matter of life which is the source of our other vital phenomena. Briefly, our minds are manufactured by our bodies. But in his more recent... | |
 | Joseph Parker - 1875 - 438 lehte
...must be an eccentric and unmanageable law, — yet according to Mr. Huxley, it is a law, for all " thoughts " are " the expression of molecular changes in that matter of life which is the source of our other vital phenomena." But seeing that those " changes " are so self-contradictory, not only as... | |
 | Robert Lewis Dabney - 1875 - 388 lehte
...of a ladder which necessarily leads us to the conclusion that thought and volition " are expressions of molecular changes in that matter of life which is the source of other vital phenomena " in fungi and the lowest animals. This is a specimen of the absurd license of this pretended science... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1875 - 452 lehte
...seems not of a nature to alarm even the most cautious. Thus when Huxley maintains that thought is ' the expression of molecular changes in that matter of life which is the source of our other vital phenomena,' we are still as far as ever from knowing where resides the moving cause... | |
 | 1875 - 808 lehte
...thoughts to which I am now giving utterance, and your thoughts in regard to them, are the expressions of molecular changes in that matter of life, which is the source of our other vital phenomena." (Lay Sermons, p. 138.) They must be the same changes, or the reasoning... | |
 | 1877 - 844 lehte
...a function of nervous-matter when that nervousmatter has attained a certain degree of organism. . . Our thoughts are the expression of molecular changes in that matter of life which is the source of our other vital phenomena.' Professor Huxley has also, reviving and in part reshaping certain theories... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1877 - 1470 lehte
...a function of nervous-matter when that nervousmatter has attained a certain degree of organism. . . Our thoughts are the expression of molecular changes in that matter of life which is the source of our other vital phenomena.' Professor Huxley has also, reviving and in part reshaping certain theories... | |
 | 1877 - 828 lehte
...a function of nervous-matter when that nervousmatter has attained a certain degree of organism. . . Our thoughts are the expression of molecular changes in that matter of life which is the source of our other vital phenomena.' Professor Huxley has also, reviving and in part reshaping certain theories... | |
 | Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow - 1877 - 492 lehte
...his hearers, ls the thoughts to which I am now giving utterance, and your thoughts regarding them, are the expression of molecular changes in that matter of life which is the source of all our other vital phenomena." He thus, you will perceive, identifies mind and body, and declares... | |
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