| Methodist Church - 1876 - 782 pages
...reproduces Spencer's doctrine of evolution, and adopts his famous definition, as follows : " Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation...retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation." Of this definition much might be said. The word indefinite must not be taken strictly for that which... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - Humanities - 1872 - 522 pages
...this term, as given by its great expositor and advocate, Herbert Spencer, is as follows : " Evolution is an integration of matter, and concomitant dissipation...retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation." First Prin., 2nd ed. p. 396. This definition will scarcely, however, make it evident how the great... | |
| Herbert Spencer - Philosophy, Modern - 1864 - 652 pages
...order. Doing this, and making the requisite addition, the formula finally stands thus : — Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation...retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation. CHAPTER XVIIL THE INTEEPEETATION OF EVOLUTION. § 146. Is this law ultimate or derivative? Must we... | |
| Herbert Spencer - Philosophy, Modern - 1864 - 650 pages
...order. Doing this, and making the requisite addition, the formula finally stands thus : — Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation...passes from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coke-rent heterogeneity ; and during which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1870 - 588 pages
...addition, the formula finally stands thus : — Evolution is an integration of matter and con-} comitant dissipation of motion; during which the matter passes from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a de-\ finite, coherent heterogeneity ; and during which tlie retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.... | |
| Herbert Spencer - Philosophy, English - 1870 - 600 pages
...order. Doing this, and making the requisite addition, tho formula finally stands thus :—Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion; during which tho matter passes from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity... | |
| Victoria Claflin Woodhull - Social sciences - 1871 - 282 pages
...intellectual — was included in it It is as follows : Evolution is an integration of matter and a concomitant dissipation of motion, during which the...heterogeneity, and during which the retained motion undergoes a partial transformation. This general formula includes all evolution, organic and inorganic, and interprets... | |
| Charles Robert Bree - Bible and evolution - 1872 - 534 pages
...HERBERT SPENCER defines evolution in the sense used by the Darwinian school as follows: — ' Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation...retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.' ' Interpreted by the close reasoning of the 395 pages which precede this formula in the work indicated,... | |
| H. Charlton Bastian - Life - 1872 - 834 pages
...compound1.' What usually occurs in the latter case is indicated by the following definition2: — 'Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation...retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.' The presence of much retained internal motion in an aggregate undergoing condensation, is the peculiarity... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1872 - 538 pages
...this term, as given by its great expositor and advocate, Herbert Spencer, is as follows : " Evolution is an integration of matter, and concomitant dissipation...retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation." First Prin., 2nd ed. p. 896. This definition will scarcely, however, make it evident how the great... | |
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