As Huxley points out, it is no more justifiable to postulate the existence of a vitalistic principle in protoplasm than it would be to set up an "aquosity" to account for the properties of water, or a "saltness" for the qualities of a certain combination of sodium and chlorine. ❋ Henry Edward Crampton (N/A)
"aquosity" entered into and took possession of the oxidated hydrogen as soon as it was formed, and then guided the aqueous particles to their places in the facets of the crystal, or amongst the leaflets of the hoar-frost. ❋ Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895 (1909)
a wonder of wonders, endowed with "aquosity," the ultimate nature of which is as inscrutable now as it was to Aristotle! ❋ Unknown (1888)
"aquosity" entered into and took possession of the oxide of hydrogen as soon as it was formed, and then guided the aqueous particles to their places in the facets of the crystal, or amongst the leaflets of the hoar-frost. ❋ Thomas Henry Huxley (1860)
"aquosity" entered into and took possession of the oxidated hydrogen as soon as it was formed, and then guided the aqueous particles to their places in the facets of the crystal, or amongst the leaflets of the hoarfrost. ❋ Thomas Henry Huxley (1860)
We do not assume that a something called “aquosity” entered into and took possession of the oxidated hydrogen as soon as it was formed, and then guided the aqueous particles to their places in the facets of the crystal, or amongst the leaflets of the hoar-frost. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The kidneys through the emulgent veins draw that aquosity from thence which you call urine, and there send it away through the ureters to be slipped downwards; where, in a lower receptacle, and proper for it, to wit, the bladder, it is kept, and stayeth there until an opportunity to void it out in his due time. ❋ Unknown (2002)
The powers of observation and experiment having increased, it became possible by scientific test and analysis to satisfy the desire for a more immediate knowledge, and thus to discover, for example, that water is water, not because it possesses the form of _aquosity_, as the ❋ W. R. Washington Sullivan (N/A)
Nevertheless, in spite of their ignorance about the real nature of water, men of science do not invent an "aqueous principle" or "aquosity" with the notion of "explaining" water. ❋ Unknown (1888)
There is not a principle of roundness, though "nature centres into balls," nor of squareness, though crystallization is in right lines, nor of aquosity, though two thirds of the surface of the earth is covered with water. ❋ John Burroughs (1879)
If we resolve it into its constituent gases we destroy its aquosity, but by uniting these gases chemically we have the wetness back again. ❋ John Burroughs (1879)
I fail to see any analogy between aquosity and that condition of matter we call vital or living. ❋ John Burroughs (1879)
In fact, in considering this question of life, it is about as difficult for the unscientific mind to get along without postulating a vital principle or force -- which, Huxley says, is analogous to the idea of a principle of aquosity in water -- as it is to walk upon the air, or to hang one's coat upon a sunbeam. ❋ John Burroughs (1879)
There is more wit than science in Huxley's question, "What better philosophical status has vitality than aquosity?" ❋ John Burroughs (1879)
There is at least this difference: When vitality is gone, you cannot recall it, or reproduce it by your chemistry; but you can recombine the two gases in which you have decomposed water, any number of times, and get your aquosity back again; it never fails; it is a power of chemistry. ❋ John Burroughs (1879)
We can do all sorts of things with water and still keep its aquosity. ❋ John Burroughs (1879)
In his famous lecture on the subject, Physical Basis of Life, he argues throughout, that life is a property of protoplasm; that protoplasm owes its properties to the nature and arrangement of its molecules; that there is no more need to infer or allege a faculty called vitality, to account for the production of these various properties of the protoplasm from its chemical constituents, than to infer a power called aquosity, to account for the generation of water from oxygen and hydrogen; and that our thoughts are the expression of molecular changes in that matter of life which is the source of our other vital phenomena. ❋ Robert Patterson (1857)
