...sequences.' One of the latest definitions of life is that which has been suggested by Mr GH Lewes : ' Life is a series of definite and successive changes, both...within an individual without destroying its identity.' This is perhaps as good a definition as has yet been given ; but no one of those we have quoted is...

...here to be formulated. It remains to add the definition since suggested by Mr GH Lewes—" Life is a series of definite and successive changes, both...within an individual without destroying its identity." The last fact which this statement has the merit of bringing into view—the persistence of a living...

...to be formulated. It remains to add the definition since suggested by Mr Or. H. Lewes — "Life is a series of definite and successive changes, both...within an individual without destroying its identity." The last fact which this statement has the merit of bringing into view — the persistence of a living...

...sequences.' One of the latest definitions of life is that which has been suggested by Mr GH Lewes : ' Life is a series of definite and successive changes, both...within an individual without destroying its identity.' This is perhaps as good a definition as has yet been given ; but no one of those we have quoted is...

...presence of life may be known. GH Lewes defines life as a series of definite and successive changes of structure and composition, which take place within an individual without destroying its identity. But this only adds other signs of life, without saying any thing of what it is which produces this...

...which has been suggested by Mr GH Lewes : ' Life is a series of definite and successive changes, 1 >oth of structure and composition, which take place within an individual without destroying its ident ity.' This is perhaps as good a definition as has yet been given ; but no one of those we have...

...the abstract. This applies, for example, to the otherwise excellent definition of GH Lewes. " Life is a series of definite and successive changes, both...within an individual without destroying its identity."* Even Fletcher's definition applies to individuals when he uses the term " organism" for the organized...

...defined by Herbert Spencer as "the coordination of actions, or their continuous adjustment;" by Lewes as "a series of definite and successive changes, both...within an individual without destroying its identity;" by Schelling as "the tendency to individuation ; " by Richeraud as "a collection of phenomena which...

...correspondence with external coexistences and sequences.' Mr. GH Lewes suggests the definition: 'Life is a series of definite and successive changes, both...composition, which take place within an individual without destroving its identity.' This is one of the most satisfactory definitions that has as yet been given,...

...external co-existences and sequences." Mr GH Lewes states — " Life is the co-ordination of actions, both of structure and composition, which take place...within an individual without destroying its identity." The larger formula, " Life is the definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both simultaneous...