...and Inheritance. If we adopt it, we must accept its full consequences. Taking Spencer's definition of Life as the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations, we must regard the race as in part the summaflon of these individual adjustments, in part as the summation,...

...the few not yet caught up and appropriated by Darwin and Huxley, that Herbert Spencer's definition of life, as the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations, covers a large and important class of phenomena ; but it is equally evident that it in no way indicates...

...the few not yet caught up and appropriated by Darwin and Huxley, that Herbert Spencer's definition of life, as the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations, covers a large and important class of phenomena; but it is equally evident that it in no way indicates...

...organic, becomes dust. Its fluids dissipate, its solids crystallize. Herbert Spencer defines the process of Life as " the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations," and Delsarte declares " the opposition of forces to be an instinct of the Soul." As though the Soul...

...Selection, and Inheritance. If we adopt it,we must accept its full consequences. Taking Spencer's definition of Life as the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations, we must regard the race as in part the summation of these individual adjustments, in part as the summation,...

...to adjust the internal needs of the body to the action of the environment. Herl>ert Spencer defines life as" The continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations." Though this reasoning and the explanation clear our conception of life somewhat, still life remains, and will...

...perfect man — is the formula of ideal conduct." This statement is related to Spencer's definition of life as " the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations"; by which probably we are to understand the self-adaptation of an organism to its environment. While...

...conception as a working hypothesis in preference to the other. If we adopt Herbert Spencers definition of life as " the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations " two things will be evident : (l) that the most cumbersome and least efficient method (if we can imagine...

...writers are there stated and their defects pointed out. He then gives his own proximate definition of Life as "the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations." This as stated in his proximate definition. His fuller definition is: "Life is the definite combination...

...of evolution to physical and mental phenomena is focussed in the definition which Spencer has given of life as " the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations," which, reduced to its simplest form, is the interaction of organism and environment. The theme of the...