As regards protoplasm in relation to Professor Huxley's essay On the physical basis of life / by James Hutchinson Stirling.
- Stirling James Hutchison, 1820-1909.
- Date:
- 1869
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: As regards protoplasm in relation to Professor Huxley's essay On the physical basis of life / by James Hutchinson Stirling. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![which identity is to be shuffled into difference, but re- main identity all the same. The brick is but modified clay, Llr Huxley intimates, bake it and paint it as you may; but is the difference introduced by the baking and painting to be ignored 1 Is what Mr Huxley calls the artifice not to be taken into account, leave alone the potter ] The strong firm rope is about as exact an example of modification proper—modification of the weak loose hemp—as can well be found; but are we to exclude from our consideration the whole element of dif- ference due to the hand and brain of man 1 Not far from Burns's Monument, on the Calton Hill of Edinburgh, there lies a mass of stones which is potentially a church, he former Trinity College Church. Were this church gain realised, would it be fair to call it a mere modifica- Aon of the previous stones t Look now to the egg and he full-feathered fowl. Chaucer describes to us the ock, • liight chaunteclere, that was to his faire Perte- otte .so dear :— His comb was redder than the fine corall, Embattled, as it were a castle-wall; His bill was black, and as the jet it shone; Like azure were his legges and his tone (toes) ; His nailes whiter than the lilie flour. And like the burned gold was his colour. Would it be even as fair to call this fine fellow—comb, attles, spurs, and all—a modified yolk, as to call the lurch but modified stones 1 If, in the latter case, an ement of difference, altogether undeniable, seems to ve intervened, is not such intervention at least quite well marked in the former 1 It requires but a slight B](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21690881_0071.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
