| 1879 - 588 pages
...in order that the energy of lifeless nature may be converted into that of the countless multitui.es of animal and vegetable forms which dwell upon the...seat in this same protoplasm, and is the prime mover in every phenomenon of life. We have seen how little mere form has to do with the essential properties... | |
| 1879 - 794 pages
...living things, or, like the famous freebooter of the ballad, as veritable " lord of all " that lives. essential unity in the two great kingdoms of organic...seat in this same protoplasm, and is the prime mover in every phenomenon of life. We have seen," continues Dr. Allman, " how little mere form has to do... | |
| 1879 - 582 pages
...may all be present, protoplasm would still be needed, in order that these conditions may be utilized. We are thus led to the conception of an essential...being has protoplasm as the essential matter of every element in its structure, and a physiological unity in the universal attribute of irritability which... | |
| National cyclopaedia - 1879 - 698 pages
...back to its earliest state, the nettle arises, as man docs, in a particle of nucleated protoplasm. We are thus led to the conception of an essential...the fact that every living being has protoplasm as tho essential matter of every living element of its structure ; and a physiological unity, in the universal... | |
| Charles John Ellicott - 1880 - 180 pages
...statement, that " Protoplasm lies at the base of every vital phenomenon," or, to use another form of words, that " every living being has Protoplasm as the essential...matter of every living element of its structure;" and that far from being able to explain the phenomenon of life by means of this rudimental substance, we... | |
| 1880 - 922 pages
...President of the British Association last year, is still more explicit. " Every living being," he says, " has protoplasm as the essential matter of every living element of its structure. . . . No one who contemplates this spontaneously moving matter can deny that it is alive. Liquid as... | |
| 1880 - 900 pages
...President of the British Association last year, is still more explicit. " Every living being," he says, " has protoplasm as the essential matter of every living element of its structure. . . . No one who contemplates this spontaneously moving matter can deny that it is alive. Liquid as... | |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1881 - 476 pages
...President of the British Association last year, is still more explicit.77 " Every living being," he says, " has protoplasm as the essential matter of every living element of its structure." " No one who contemplates this spontaneously moving matter can deny that it is alive. Liquid as it... | |
| Andrew Wilson - 1883 - 444 pages
...powers which mark their varied lives. As Dr. Allman puts it, in an address to the British Association, " we are thus led to the conception of an essential...seat in this same protoplasm, and is the prime mover in every phenomenon of life. We have seen," continues Dr. Allman, " how little mere form has to do... | |
| John Michels - 1880 - 364 pages
...President of the liritish Association last year, is still more explicit. " Every living being," he says, "has protoplasm as the essential matter of every living element of its structure." " No one who contemplates this spontaneously moving matter can deny that it is alive.' Liquid as it... | |
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