Quarterly Journal of Science, Volumen18John Churchill and Sons, 1881 |
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... Matter are ; nor yet molecular motion in matter , as some will have it to be , but a temporary state of certain kinds of matter , which is produced and regulated in them by " mind . " In an enquiry of this nature precision in the use of ...
... Matter are ; nor yet molecular motion in matter , as some will have it to be , but a temporary state of certain kinds of matter , which is produced and regulated in them by " mind . " In an enquiry of this nature precision in the use of ...
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matter , such as heat , electricity , or magnetism . * To this view I may have to revert in a subsequent part of this paper . It is now generally agreed that life ( on our earth at least ) is never found except as associated with a ...
matter , such as heat , electricity , or magnetism . * To this view I may have to revert in a subsequent part of this paper . It is now generally agreed that life ( on our earth at least ) is never found except as associated with a ...
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... matter which is already in a living state . But this power does appear to be possessed by living matter , both vegetable and animal . The former acts upon the binary compounds above mentioned when in immediate contact , under certain ...
... matter which is already in a living state . But this power does appear to be possessed by living matter , both vegetable and animal . The former acts upon the binary compounds above mentioned when in immediate contact , under certain ...
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... matter . Dr. Huxley compares it to the change of oxygen and hy- drogen into water , under the term " aquosity , " but confesses that the influence of living upon dead matter is " unintelli- gible " ( " Lay Serm . , " p . 150 ) . It is ...
... matter . Dr. Huxley compares it to the change of oxygen and hy- drogen into water , under the term " aquosity , " but confesses that the influence of living upon dead matter is " unintelli- gible " ( " Lay Serm . , " p . 150 ) . It is ...
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... matter is as close as can be imagined ; but the transfer of " life " has ceased . The initiation , therefore , of the living state in the lifeless , whether it has formerly been alive or not , must be due to the action of an unseen ...
... matter is as close as can be imagined ; but the transfer of " life " has ceased . The initiation , therefore , of the living state in the lifeless , whether it has formerly been alive or not , must be due to the action of an unseen ...
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Página 270 - ... not alone the more ignoble forms of animalcular or animal life, not alone the nobler forms of the horse and lion, not alone the exquisite and wonderful mechanism of the human body, but that the human mind itself — emotion, intellect, will, and all their phenomena — were once latent in a fiery cloud.
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Página 6 - Darwin to set aside, is as firmly associated with the creation of a few forms as with the creation of a multitude. We need clearness and thoroughness here. Two courses, and two only, are possible. Either let us open our doors freely to the conception of creative acts, or abandoning them, let us radically change our notions of matter.