...vegetable is essentially identical with and readily converted into another, and the further concession that all vital action may, with equal propriety, be...molecular forces of the protoplasm which displays it. The thoughts to which we give utterance are the expression of molecular changes in protoplasm. These...

...including " the thoughts to which I am now giving utterance, and your thoughts regarding them," — be " the result of the molecular forces of the protoplasm which displays it ? " Will Mr Huxley answer that question before he comes to Edinburgh with a second Sabbath evening...

...conclusion and the further and final one : That all vital action whatever, intellectual included, is but the result of the molecular forces of the protoplasm which displays it. These sentences will be acknowledged, I think, fairly to represent Mr. Huxley's relative deliverances,...

...Professor Huxley, "is the result of the molecular forces of the protoplasm which displays it." He adds, "And, if so, it must be true, in the same sense and...to the same extent, that the thoughts to which I am giving utterance, and your thoughts regarding them, are the expression of molecular changes in that...

...principle which we call ' vitality : ' and he comes to this conclusion, ' that all vital action may be said to be the result of the molecular forces of the protoplasm which displays it.' And in addressing his audience, he adds, ' If so, it must be true, in the same sense, and to the same extent,...

...forces" of the physical basis ; and that, by consequence, to use his own words to 'his audience, " the thoughts to which I am ..now giving utterance, and your thoughts regarding them, are but the expression of molecular changes in that matter of life which is the source of our other vital...

...are, gratuitous inventions of our own. Here are some of his most audacious conceptions : '' Life is the result of the molecular forces of the protoplasm which displays it. Thought is the expression of molecular changes in this same life-stuff', and is 'as much a function...

...Life," finds in protoplasm the ultimate ground of organized existence. "All vital action," he says, " is the result of the molecular forces of the protoplasm which displays it." But we have no protoplasm except such as is born in and of organization. The basis of life then is...

...conclusion and the further and final one : That all vital action whatever, intellectual included, is but the result of the molecular forces of the protoplasm which displays it. These sentences will be acknowledged, I think, fairly to represent Mr. Huxley's relative deliverances,...

...discover no logical halting-place between the admission that such is the case, and the further concession that all vital action may, with equal propriety, be...molecular forces of the protoplasm which displays it."* (Here the word force is employed for property, as action depends upon the property of the acting body...