...adjustment of internal relations to external relations ;" or more at length, but less simply : " Life is the definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external coexistences and sequences." Now if Mr. Spencer only meant by this to indicate, that which all forms of what is ordinarily termed life...

...adjustment of internal relations to external relations ;" or more at length, but less simply : " Life, is the definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external coexistences and sequences." Now if Mr. Spencer only meant by this to indicate, that which all forms of what is ordinarily termed life...

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

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

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

...embrace all the cardinal phenomena : while the definition proposed by Herbert Spencer, namely, " Life is the definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external co-existences and sequences," has the disadvantage of not being perfectly intelligible apart from his explanation of it in detail.*...

...tedious ; for the rest, see CONVALESCENCE. LIFE.—The following is a learned author's definition. " The definite combination of heterogeneous changes...correspondence with external coexistences and sequences." (!) Life is a precious boon which Instinct seems to drive us to protect from immediate danger, but...

...more general sense, must consist in the manifestation of Life, properly so called. Life we have seen to be, " the definite combination of heterogeneous...correspondence with external co-existences and sequences." Hence, a biological individual is any concrete whole having a structure which enables it, when placed...

...embraces the phenomena of vegetal life, and even there is too restricted. HERBERT SPENCER says, " Life is the definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external co-existences and sequences." In a former work, after citing these definitions, I proposed the following:—" Life is the dynamical...

...that it also exhibits co-ordinntiou of actions.' His present and amended conception of life is : ' The definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external co-existences and sequences.' One of the latest definitions o£ life is that which has been suggested by Mr OH Lewes : 1 Life is...