 | 1869
...I bid you beware that, in accepting these conclusions, you are placing your feet on the first rung ڰ a m 1 Τ t Ng h {y endeavoured to prove to you, their protoplasm is essentially identical with, and most readily converted... | |
 | 822 pages
...warn his readers " that in accepting these conclusions, you are placing your feet on the first rung of a ladder which, in most people's estimation, is...of Jacob's, and leads to the antipodes of heaven." • In attempting to establish his proposition, however, be betrays, for a professor in science, astonishing... | |
 | 1869 - 350 pages
...But I bid you beware that in accepting these conclusions, you are placing your feet on the first rung of a ladder which, in most people's estimation, is...matter of which they are composed. But if, as I have endeavoured to prove to you, their protoplasm is essentially identical with, and most readily converted... | |
 | Theology - 1869 - 580 pages
...Prof. Huxley warns us that if we accept this conclusion we "are placing our feet on the first rung of a ladder, which, in most people's estimation, is...of Jacob's, and leads to the antipodes of heaven." In other words, if we admit the premises, and grant that the apparent vital energy displayed by protoplasm... | |
 | 1869 - 880 pages
...proposition are unquestionably materialistic, and yet denies that he is individually a materialist " It may seem a small thing to admit that the dull vital actions of a fungus, or a foriminifer, are the properties of their protoplasm, and are the direct results of the nature of the... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Evolution (Biology) - 1870 - 444 pages
...bid you beware that, in accepting these conclu* .sions, you are placing your feet on the first rung of a ladder which, in most people's estimation, is...dull vital actions of a fungus, or a foraminifer, arc the properties of their protoplasm, and are the direct results of the nature of the matter of which... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1870 - 312 pages
...the dull vital actions of a fungus, or the foraminifera, are the properties of their protoplasm, and the direct results of the nature of the matter of which they are composed, and the further concession that all vital actions may with equal propriety be said to be the result... | |
 | James Hutchison Stirling - Protoplasm - 1870 - 80 pages
...does not prove. He merely says that, if we admit the functions of the lowest forms of life to be but " direct results of the nature of the matter of which they are composed," we must admit as much for the functions of the highest. We have not admitted Mr. Huxley's presupposition... | |
 | Science - 1871 - 318 pages
...not prove. He merely says tjiat, if we admit the functions of the lowest forms of life to be but " direct results of the nature of the matter of which they are composed," we must admit as much for the functions of the highest. We have not admitted Mr. Huxley's presupposition... | |
 | William George Williams - 1872 - 398 pages
...I bid you beware that, in accepting these conclusions, you are placing your feet on the first rung of a ladder which, in most people's estimation, is...nature of the matter of which they are composed." Here we are told, in direct terms, that the vital action is a property of protoplasmic matter. And... | |
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It may seem a small thing to admit that the dull vital actions of a fungus, or a foraminifer, are the properties of their protoplasm, and are the direct results of the nature of the matter of which they are composed. 
