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" The researches of the chemist have revealed a no less striking uniformity of material composition in living matter. In perfect strictness, it is true that chemical investigation can tell us little or nothing, directly, of the composition of living matter,... "
The relations of language to thought - Page 65
by William Roscoe Burgess - 1869
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The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and advocate, Volume 69

1869
...however, we are met at the very outset by the important admission that, "in perfect strictness, it is true visions. In his 10th chapter he says, — " I saw another matter, inasmuch as such matter must needs die in the act of analysis/' And adds Mr. Huxley, " Upon...
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On the Physical Basis of Life

Thomas Henry Huxley - 1869 - 30 pages
...less striking uniformity of material composition in living matter. In perfect strictness, it is true that chemical investigation can tell us little or...composition of actually living matter from that of the cloud matter of life, which alone is accessible to us. But objectors of this class do not seem...
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Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews

Thomas Henry Huxley - 1870 - 448 pages
...less striking uniformity of material composition in living matter. In perfect strictness, it is true that chemical investigation can tell us little or...composition of actually living matter, from that of the dead matter of life, which alone is accessible to us. But objectors of this class do not seem to...
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Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews

Thomas Henry Huxley - 1870 - 444 pages
...us little or nothing, directly, of the •omposition of living matter, inasmuch as such matter rmst needs die in the act of analysis, — and upon this...obvious ground, objections, which I confess seem to -ne to be somewhat frivolous, have been raised to the ! rawing of any conclusions whatever respecting...
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Man in Genesis and in Geology: Or, The Biblical Account of Man's Creation ...

Joseph Parrish Thompson - 1870 - 166 pages
...Indeed, he admits that we know nothing about , the composition of any body whatever, as it is, and that chemical investigation can tell us little or...nothing, directly, of the composition of living matter. Hence, of all the known forces and properties in the physical universe before man, we have no evidence...
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Isis Unveiled: Science

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky - 1877 - 696 pages
...Huxley, the learned parent of the new-born infant is found saying : " In perfect strictness, it is tme that chemical investigation can tell us little or...nothing, directly, of the composition of living matter, and ... it is also in strictness, true, that WE KNOW NOTHING about the composition of any body whatever,...
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Isis Unveiled: Science

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky - 1877 - 688 pages
...Huxley, the learned parent of the new-born infant is found saying : " In perfect strictness, it is true that chemical investigation can tell us little or...nothing, directly, of the composition of living matter, and ... it is also in strictness, true, that WE KNOW NOTHING about the composition of any body whatever,...
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Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews

Thomas Henry Huxley - 1880 - 408 pages
...less striking uniformity of material composition in living matter. In perfect strictness, it is true that chemical investigation can tell us little or...inasmuch as such matter must needs die in the act of analysis,—and upon this very obvious ground, objections, which I confess seem to me to be somewhat...
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The Spiritual record, Issue 1

1883 - 702 pages
...would have sent him out of court without a stain on his character. IN perfect strictness, it is true that chemical investigation can tell us little or...nothing, directly, of the composition of living matter ; and it is also in strictness true that we KNOW NOTHING about the composition of any body whatever,...
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Select Works of Thomas H. Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley - 1886 - 354 pages
...less striking unifoimity of material composition in living matter. In perfect strictness, it is true that chemical investigation can tell us little or...composition of actually living matter, from that of the dead matter of life, which alone is accessible to us. But objectors of this class do not seem to...
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