 | 822 sayfa
...it will be seen, is the most downright materialism, and Mr. Huxley does well to warn his readers " that in accepting these conclusions, you are placing...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 - 580 sayfa
...molecular structure. Here 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...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 sayfa
...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 - 1870 - 444 sayfa
...nature and disposition of its molecules. But I bid you beware that, in accepting these conclu* .sions, you are placing your feet on the first rung of a ladder...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... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1870 - 400 sayfa
...say that the properties of protoplasm result from the nature and disposition of its molecules. But I bid you beware that, in accepting these conclusions, you are placing your feet on the first rang of a ladder which, in most people's estimation, is the reverse of Jacob's, and leads to the antipodes... | |
 | 1871 - 308 sayfa
...say that the properties of protoplasm result from the nature and disposition of its molecules. But I bid you beware that, in accepting these conclusions, you are placing your feet on the first rung of a ladderwhich, in most people's estimation, is the reverse of Jacob's, and leads to the antipodes of... | |
 | William George Williams - 1873 - 380 sayfa
...say that the properties of protoplasm result from the nature and disposition of its molecules. : "But I bid you beware that, in accepting these conclusions,...foraminifer, are the properties of *their protoplasm, arid are the direct results of the nature of the matter of which they are composed." Here we are told,... | |
 | William Thomas Thornton - 1873 - 326 sayfa
...this doctrine would be denounced as rankest heresy, and that whoever accepts it is placing his foot on the first rung of a ladder which, in most people's...of Jacob's, and leads to the antipodes of heaven.' He frankly owns that the terms of his propositions are distinctly materialistic : nay, that whoever... | |
 | Ralph Richardson (M.D.) - 1873 - 134 sayfa
...but the abstract qualities of contractibility and combustibility are mere inferences of our minds.) " It may seem a small thing to admit that the dull vital actions of a fungus, or a foraininifer, are the properties of their protoplasm, and are the direct results of the nature of the... | |
 | 1876 - 1072 sayfa
...to see) 110 escape from its logical and inevitable corollary, Automatism, in its fullest sense. Mr. Huxley's conclusion, from his own premises, is equally...protoplasm, and are the direct results of the nature of the * British MedicalJournal, August 24th, 1874. t Lay Sermons, &o., pp. 163-4. matter of which they are... | |
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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 the reverse of Jacob's, and leads to the antipodes of heaven. 
