...is, and all our attempted explanations fall short of explanation. " Life," says Herbert Spencer, " is the definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...successive, in correspondence with external coexistences and sequerlces." This is an explanation which, like all others of the same kind, requires explanation....

...definition of life, Mr. Spencer, admitting that any definition must be imperfect, prefers this : " The definite combination of heterogeneous changes...simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external co- existence and sequences ;" or more briefly, " The continuous adjustment of internal relations to...

...being in God. Mr. Herbert Spencer, finding fault with various definitions of life, says — "Life is the definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external co-existences and sequences." It would be more correct to say — Life^ effects definite combinations and changes, etc. Mr. G.' H....

...how and under what laws it appears, edifies us with the assurance that life (as a phenomenon) is " the definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external coexistences and sequences." We accept the statement in the spirit in which it is offered, as a description, more or less lucid,...

...which take place within an individual without destroying its identity " ( GH Lewis). " The defmite combination of heterogeneous changes, both simultaneous...correspondence with external co-existences and sequences " (Herbert Spencer). The last, speaking of the coordination of actions, says, " an arrest of coordination...

...Principles of Biology. In Part I., Chap. IV. of that work, the proximate idea we arrived at was that Life ia "the definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...rendered somewhat too wide, so that it includes a few non-vital phenomena which simulate vitality, yet practically no error is likely to result from its...

...actions going on without it. We saw that Life is adequately conceived only when we think of it as !t the definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...rendered somewhat too wide, so that it includes a few non-vital phenomena which simulate vitality, yet practically no error is likely to result from its...

...living things. Aristotle denned life as " the cause of form in organisms." Herbert Spencer defines it as " the definite combination of heterogeneous...correspondence with external co-existences and sequences." I prefer Aristotle's definition. I have defined life in connection with physical organisms as the power...

...of Mind under their broadest aspects, as part of the phenomena of Life. Life having been conceived as "the definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external co-existences and sequences," or more generally as " the continuous adjustments of internal relations to external relations," it...

...of Mind under their broadest aspects, as part of the phenomena of Life. Life having been conceived as "the definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external co-existences and sequences," or more generally as "the continuous adjustments of internal relations to external relations," it was...