 If the properties of water may be properly said to result from the nature and disposition of its component molecules, I can find no intelligible ground for refusing to say that the properties of protoplasm result from the nature and disposition of its...  The Forum - Page 294edited by - 1895Full view - About this book
 | 1869
...Huxley proceeds to ridicule the idea of vitality,* and thus approaches his grand conclusion : — " If the properties of water may be properly said to...from the nature and disposition of its molecules." " But I bid you beware that, in accepting these conclusions, you are placing your feet on the first... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1895 - 634 pages
...possess some fragment of feeling which they cannot manifest. So that, ' If the properties of water may be said to result from the nature and disposition of its component molecules,' — as they may — ' I,' exclaims our lecturer, ' can find no intelligible ground for refusing to... | |
 | 1869 - 718 pages
...occasions the union of oxygen and hydrogen with the assumption of new qualities in the compound. " If the properties of water may be properly said to...from the nature and disposition of its molecules." In other words, " all vital action may be said to be the result of the molecular forces of the protoplasm... | |
 | 1869 - 350 pages
...by water are its properties, so are those presented by protoplasm, living or dead, its properties. If the properties of water may be properly said to...from the nature and disposition of its molecules." That the ultimate result of this is very serious, Professor Huxley does not attempt to conceal. Frankly... | |
 | 1869 - 658 pages
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 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1869 - 30 pages
...by water are its properties, so are those presented by protoplasm, living or dead, its properties. If the properties of water may be properly said to...from the nature and disposition of its molecules. But I bid you beware that, in accepting these conclusions, you are placing your feet on the first rung... | |
 | 1869 - 776 pages
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 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1870 - 400 pages
...by water are its properties, so are those presented by protoplasm, living or dead, its properties. If the properties of -water may be properly said to...from the nature and disposition of its molecules. But I bid you beware that, in accepting these conclusions, you are placing your feet on the first rang... | |
 | 1870 - 790 pages
...we call a given organism an animal or a plant. The gist of Huxley's doctrine is in this sentence : " If the properties of water may be properly said to...from the nature and disposition of its molecules." Regarding the charge of materialism urged against his views, he argues with an ingenuity which will... | |
 | 1870 - 748 pages
...properties. If the properties of water may properly be said to result from the nature and disposition of its molecules, I can find no intelligible ground for refusing...from the nature and disposition of its molecules." To say nothing of the doubtful propriety of reasoning from lifeless to living matter, we have here... | |
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