70.
The same view was expressed in _Memoires de physique_ (1797), pp.

254-257, 386.
[118] 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..