It could not be produced by purely mechanical means, such as the mingling of minute particles of glass wool, the barbed hairs of a tussock moth, or the other coarser hairs of the brown-tail, with the blood.
Similar experiments were carried out by Blackwell (1855), who believed that in the case of insects bitten, death did not result any more promptly than it would have from a purely mechanical injury of equal extent.
As in the case of nagana, Bruce and most of the earlier investigators supposed the transmission of the sleeping sickness trypanosome by Glossina palpalis to be purely mechanical.
These new conceptions necessarily involve the admission that Evolution has not been a purely mechanical process.
For example, a purely mechanical response to a light-stimulus may properly be viewed as response to the ether-vibration or wave-length upon which it follows in temporal sequence.
A living body may respond to an actual cut by a knife on purely mechanical or reflex principles; but to respond to a cut by anticipation, i.
He was the first to reduce, in a manner eminently capable of bearing the test of mental presentation, vital phenomena to purely mechanical principles.
This is the view Kant took when he said, "It is quite certain that we cannot even satisfactorily understand, much less explain, the nature of an organism and its internal forces on purely mechanical principles.
The type that prints the book is set up and again distributed by a purely mechanical process, but that which the printed page signifies involves something not mechanical.
This, as a purely mechanical process, is seeable by the mind.
Arrest a purely mechanical process, and the machine only rests or rusts; arrest a vital process, and the machine evaporates, disintegrates, myriads of other machines reduce it to its original mineral and gaseous elements.
It is attained by purely mechanical methods, by an accumulation of the variations most useful at the time.
A purely mechanical procedure is the inevitable, the natural and necessary method of a pure objectivism.
By technique here is meant everything that makes scientific work purely mechanical.
Variability, heredity, and above all correlation, would not be regarded by Von Hartmann as purely mechanical principles, but he would therein assume a metaphysical directive principle.
This must be a purely mechanical process, depending on that innate law of growth, the action of which we may observe without being able to explain fully.
Von Hartmann might have said here that a reference of the phenomenon of heredity to purely mechanical causes, i.
It is true that their newly-discovered principle of selection is of the very greatest importance, since it solves the riddle as to how that which is useful can arise in a purely mechanical way.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "purely mechanical" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
