Note 118 — Chapter X · LAMARCK’S OPINIONS ON GENERAL PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOLOGY

Here might be quoted for comparison other famous definitions of life:

“Life is the sum of the functions by which death is resisted.”—Bichat.

“Life is the result of organization.”—(?)

“Life is the principle of individuation.”—Coleridge ex. Schelling.

“Life is the twofold internal movement of composition and decomposition, at once general and continuous.”—De Blainville, who wisely added that there are “two fundamental and correlative conditions inseparable from the living being—an organism and a medium.”

“Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.”—Herbert Spencer.