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" Thus it becomes clear that all living powers are cognate, and that all living forms are fundamentally of one character. The researches of the chemist have revealed a no less striking uniformity of material composition in living matter. "
Journal of the New-York Microscopical Society - Page 92
by New York Microscopical Society - 1889
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The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and advocate, Volume 69

1869
...next step in the process is to support, by evidence from chemistry, the conclusion thus obtained. " 'One afternoon, while I was reading the New Testament...while my pupils were preparing their next lesson, Here again, however, we are met at the very outset by the important admission that, "in perfect strictness,...
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Medical Times and Gazette, Volume 1

Medicine - 1869 - 718 pages
...sums up, "all living powers are cogirite, and all living forms are fundamentally of one character. The researches of the chemist have revealed a no less...uniformity of material composition in living matter." It is proteinaceous, or more or less albuminoid. " And now, what is tha ultimate fate, and what the...
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On the Physical Basis of Life

Thomas Henry Huxley - Protoplasm - 1869 - 30 pages
...sun-dried clod. Thus it becomes clear that all living powers are cognate, and that all living forms are he researches of the chemist have revealed a no less...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 frivolous,...
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The relations of language to thought

William Roscoe Burgess - 1869 - 92 pages
...true," says Professor Huxley,1 writing upon a subject very analogous to that which here concerns us, " that chemical investigation can tell us little or...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 frivolous,...
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Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews

Thomas Henry Huxley - Evolution (Biology) - 1870 - 448 pages
...clear that all living powers are cognate, and that all living forms are fundamentally of one character. The researches of the chemist have revealed a no less...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 frivolous,...
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On the Physical Basis of Life

Thomas Henry Huxley - Life - 1870 - 56 pages
...living lorms are fundamentally of one character. The researches of the chemist have revealed a rioTess striking uniformity of material composition in living...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 frivolous,...
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Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews

Thomas Henry Huxley - Evolution (Biology) - 1870 - 444 pages
...that all living forms are fundamentally of one character. The researches of the chemist have i-evealcd a no less striking uniformity of material composition...matter. In perfect strictness, it is true that chemical invesMgation can tell us little or nothing, directly, of the •omposition of living matter, inasmuch...
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Man in Genesis and in Geology: Or, The Biblical Account of Man's Creation ...

Joseph Parrish Thompson - Bible and geology - 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 - Occultism and science - 1877 - 688 pages
...! when we turned to read Mr. Huxley, the learned parent of the new-born infant is found saying : " In perfect strictness, it is true that chemical investigation...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 - Occultism and science - 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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