About definitions of life.

Anyone who begins to write a physiology, sees itself first and foremost according to a new definition of life. We have in this way the very many, but it is fortunate that we have to learn not only from the observations that are in the physiologies, how it must begin to live, but rather that every talent is innate to the same. Kant, whose Baume our most modern philosophers - I take the natural philosopher - still take the seeds to bring out shoot their own systems from it and afterwards make the world believe that they have discovered a new genus, when only a few leaves or flowers be different in mind than on-parents-tree; Kant explains life as the ability of a substance to determine from an inner principle. But what is an inner principle? Is it merely the soul, as the capacity to think and want, Kant seems to suggest now that our whole body is a carcass, if we do not assume approximately that the leg, hand, etc. a piece of the soul as inwohnendes principle have, and only after Kieser the pineal gland, by Meckel the corpus callosum , or even other living beings are the cerebral ventricles, from where the soul as from a throne, their mandates sends to the rest of the world body, in which the bone as farmers have to bear the burden of the state, and nothing for it to get as parched food, while the nerves as nobles command only and bully the members and received as officers in the military profession, the rotmontierte muscular system, where the veins present the merchant class, the the succum and sanguinem coursing of life can and converts it to the border in goods, where each institution must have learned his particular craft, and where in the head a whole university infected with chairs of philosophy, mathematics, Theosophy, music, and wherever behind the ear thieves Sitting in the back of the head libertines etc, in short of all this beautiful state would end only the queen, reason itself, life, the other a movement that until the evening abliefe once in the morning. Upper is actually what determines from within the activity, an inner principle, now so also lives the stone such as gravity holds, and he expresses, therefore, or encounters another stone, he has indeed probably no life because he not therefore politely apologized, but surely life, because he certainly pushes with all his energy, all with full might and that it can only apply. He has certainly learned nothing more than press; when we dance, pushes the stone if we laugh, so he suppressed when we tight so it presses, the press is but also an activity which he expresses of course, because he press must, but it is the inner principle as a principle of free, now it is our reason even the deadest of what it can give, because it can only act according to (subjective) need sufficient reasons she has not set itself. But why not drop into that, of course, do not wear some salted sea, which is already doused the venerable head, and now almost exhausted has. Jacobi says straight to: Nothing can be lively hot than when ideas induce movements: but where differences then a meadow, which would have been planted with Italian perfumed flowers, from a natural, where the flowers have their youth and their old age, and, what I said earlier, our heart and all our wrists are then dead tubes, rather than their leaden we could use that would be at least more durable. Erhard after the character of life consists in the ability of movements to the services of the moving thing. Now I will readily admit though, that what we call life, has the

capacity to move to his greater good: but then you could just say so well: the character of life consists in the ability to eat and drink (eat the living soul and that does not drink, but she also does not move, and wants to figuratively of movement speak the same, so you can's also eating and drinking the same, it is nourished by ideas they made the fabric of beliefs pulls and digested in the mind), or the ability to be periodic at rest and activity, or the ability to take turns to do and to suffer - to receive and give - to foreign verhnlichen etc., etc. If there before me almost as if the definition encoder to the big strong oak tree of life, the juices of the world move into the big tubes are, running around, and the one a leaf, the other a colorful bloom just particularly fancied him the third, when he could not reach further, even a piece of dry bark abbrchen to, at the entrance to decorate their physiological Herbarium, otherwise just making evident the dried bodies of the natural order, and how to Quercus Robur writes on the label and a small piece of the tree, as well as the small fragment of the attached any live tree the name of the whole. But neither the single sheet, still set hundred sheets together, the whole thing will ever make. Treviranus the way, I honoris causa call, and can not make it, when a person touches obscurer him, in his biology, from which I have taken the rest of the definitions given, following, and as it seems, with great assuredness : The (physical) life is a condition which produce random effects of the outside world and entertain, but in which, notwithstanding this randomness, uniformity of phenomena prevails. This definition may explain an example. A man is begotten of his Father, who wishes to have children, with good forethought, but because of sickly constitution, which clings to him, brings every harsh breath of air, every cold the feet, his whole body in disarray, just any accidental exposure to the outside world interferes in the normal course of his appearances. This man is once chance at a home over, accidentally falls down a brick of that, and it happens to be the skull strikes, accidental exposure to water and air calls for three days out the rot, and this falls under all weather changes in a uniform way away can claim to have earlier than would the functions of the people, he would have exposed those changes. I think a more striking example, represent the ratio of the living and dead condition in a subject, do not let yourself be. In this man apparently started life with that despite all the external influences in his peculiar progressive, state that the brick, the random effect of the outside world, had induced in him, and the other random effects were talking, whereas the conviction that we must they as well as a random effect of the outside world to call, could not in itself give rise to life, and really only caused a state where at random influences of the external world, the largest non-uniformity of the apparitions took place, therefore a dead. - But that's probably not going to say Treviranus with its definition, and so I must have misunderstood all the terms therein, only bad if this is not really so easy with a definition that just it is to serve the wise, when they empty a Lantern similar, although probably it can be seen but only if you yourself do not put a light set, given that the definition of the light should be immediate. It would be a very futile effort, the various definitions of life and want to collect all the list; life is so rich that after centuries probably not each of them will be used to

define the lifetime of individual phenomena, although certainly many except those that are there already. It also seems as if all definitions of life abzweckten more on to justify the nobility, the people have become selfish issued as living creatures so that all the rest, which can prove his very close relationship with them, among the plebs the dead belong, and people, of which there are in recent times, however, introduce an unbound equality, and want to give such a constitution of the world that everything was governed by the same laws cheap, and the stone that previously came only with feet and the expense was condemned to wear, be for his trouble, and as part of the whole at least the same rights to life, than the other, is distinguished dnkenden citizens of the world, the plants and animals are to be granted, these people, as cheap, as a rebel against the old, long bestandne order, as they only occur outlawed, and the youth warned against its pitfalls. I've been thinking about life long and deep, and as it went for me, as it often goes with such musings, I found recently that I had been thinking about nothing, that life did not exist. All statements, other I have ever heard of life, apparently it came out that it just as well, and even better fit of the Dead. An immense thought, but not a light thought, but an immense infinite shadow fell at once into my soul, and I saw the world as an incalculable grave in front of me, it does not even sprouted flowers on the grave, which flourished on the world body and greened; because the flowers themselves were dead and were up in the grave, it was No, they would plant on the grave or over a tear could have cried, the tears were drops of water that flowed without meaning, and each soul was a mechanical wheel in the watch case the body and the mind automatons who walked in and jumped up, because they had to, not because they wanted to, love and friendship, single electric light flashes through the night, which I now realized the conductors who had been my blind eye previously hidden; saw the sun to the earth friendly, but knew nothing of the earth and the sun also did not know that she smiled, the world was a specter of life that it mimicked, and that it looked, icy chill through the bones chased, and the harmony of the world went out to kill pendulum oscillations, which swayed with and against each other, and the storm of emotions, they aufjagten in the chest, settled by square and cubit measure, because they were the same vibrations that I found measurable there, the only here a fine stringed instrument compelled to resonate. I overlooked the whole mechanism, it consisted of a mass of infinite levers attacked by another, an arm of each lever was always within a housing that is otherwise called a living creature, the other sticking out into the outside world, and if the internal lever arm Regend, the outer continued into corresponding movement, I believed otherwise, to watch a game of freedom; Thor! now I saw how obscured the inner lever itself was only set back by an external moving, so that he could not help himself and rain, and how that movement once again did not go out by himself, and so continued to infinity. But, I exclaimed: There must be one that stimulates all the levers, and is excited by none, where is he, the living? And I saw a path in front of me, and a column with the inscription it: Go this way to, where it ends, there is the living house, which stimulates all the levers, and I hurried away and on the road, always the goal of nearbelieving, and when I had gone through an eternity, I was back at the first column,

and recognized the symbol of the circle.