We can do all sorts of things with water and still keep its aquosity. From Wordnik.com. [The Breath of Life] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope] Reference
I fail to see any analogy between aquosity and that condition of matter we call vital or living. From Wordnik.com. [The Breath of Life] Reference
There is more wit than science in Huxley's question, "What better philosophical status has vitality than aquosity?". From Wordnik.com. [The Breath of Life] Reference
If we resolve it into its constituent gases we destroy its aquosity, but by uniting these gases chemically we have the wetness back again. From Wordnik.com. [The Breath of Life] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [More Science From an Easy Chair] Reference
200 years ago, no one is deluded at the present day into the belief that by calling the remarkable properties of water "aquosity" you have added anything to our knowledge of them. From Wordnik.com. [More Science From an Easy Chair] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Breath of Life] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Breath of Life] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Breath of Life] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity] Reference
Chair, "following Huxley, compares vitality with aquosity, and says that to have recourse to a vital principle or force to explain a living body is no better philosophy than to appeal to a principle of aquosity to explain water. From Wordnik.com. [The Breath of Life] Reference
“vitality” than “aquosity”?. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography and Selected Essays] Reference
"aquosity"?. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography and Selected Essays]
What better philosophical status has "vitality" than "aquosity"?. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures and Essays] Reference
So likewise the small terrestrial fire doth not burn so lively in dusky, dark, rainy weather, nor manifests it self with joy in its operation, as it doth when there is a fair, pure, serene, unfalsified heavenly Air; the reason is, because the sympathy is bound and hindered by the obstruction of those Accidents and the waterish Air, so that the attractive power is grieved, that it cannot accomplish its compleat Love and Operation as it should, for this hinderance brings the aquosity to the contrary Element. From Wordnik.com. [Of Natural and Supernatural Things Also of the first Tincture, Root, and Spirit of Metals and Minerals, how the same are Conceived, Generated, Brought forth, Changed, and Augmented.] Reference
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