 human animal," these philosophers "deny that any traces of " such an agent" are to be discoverable in the phenomena of life; and having traced the functional powers to certain elementary formations, which they term tissues, and being wholly unable to...  Sketches of the Philosophy of Morals - Page xivby Sir Thomas Charles Morgan - 1822 - 369 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1823 - 616 pages
...philosophers ' deny that any traces of such an agent' are to be discoverable in the phenomena of life; and having traced the functional powers to certain elementary...they term tissues, and being wholly unable to carry these investigations farther, they consider these tissues as the elements of their science, exactly... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1823 - 636 pages
...philosophers ' deny that any traces of such an agent' are to be discoverable in the phenomena of lifej and having traced the functional powers to certain elementary...they term tissues, and being wholly unable to carry these investigations farther, they consider these tissues as the elements of their science, exactly... | |
 | Sir Francis Palgrave - 1922 - 500 pages
...philosophers "deny that any traces of " such an agent" are to be discoverable in the phenomena of life; and having traced the functional powers to certain elementary...they term tissues, and being wholly unable to carry these investigations further, they consider these tissues as the elements of their science, exactly... | |
 | Owsei Temkin - 2006 - 578 pages
...to be guarded against.106 Morgan formulated the contrasting attitude of the French physiologists as "having traced the functional powers to certain elementary...elementary, subject to the correction of ulterior discoveries."107 The claim that irritability could not be reduced beyond muscular fibres, nor sensibility... | |
 | Sir Francis Palgrave, Sir Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave, Geoffrey Palgrave Barker - 500 pages
...philosophers "deny that any traces of " such an agent" are to be discoverable in the phenomena of life; and having traced the functional powers to certain elementary...they term tissues, and being wholly unable to carry these investigations further, they consider these tissues as the elements of their science, exactly... | |
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