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| 1880 - 820 pages
...physical face of the unknowable, better known as matter and motion, had been passing "from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite coherent heterogeneity...through continuous differentiations and integrations," until at last particular sets of nervous plexuses in particular relations to the environment were organized.... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1872 - 522 pages
...accomplished by the words in which he at last defines the law of evolution. " Evolution," he says, " is a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity,...through continuous differentiations and integrations."* These words embarrass the reader, and obscure the subject, unless the reasons for their choice are... | |
| William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1873 - 552 pages
...its logical claims. What is evolution ? "A change," says its chief exponent, " from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity, to a definite, coherent heterogeneity,...through continuous differentiations and integrations."! This, mark, is the God that is to produce the universe. Let us seek to grasp it. The homogeneous has... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1864 - 664 pages
...mathematician (Kirkman) who made the following exquisite translation of a well-known definition : — Evolution is a change from an indefinite, incoherent,...differentiations and integrations.* {Translation into plain EnqlisTi.~\ Evolution is a change from a nohowish, untalkaboutablo, all-alikeness, to a somchowish... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1864 - 652 pages
...Evolution is a change from an indefinite, incoherent, homogeneity to a definite, coherent, heterogencity, through continuous differentiations and integrations.*...untalkaboutable, all-alikeness, to a somehowish and in-generaltalkaboutablo not-all-alikeness, by continuous somethingelscifications, and sticktogetherations."... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1864 - 650 pages
...mathematician (Kirkman) who made the following exquisite translation of a well-known definition: — Evolution is a change from an indefinite, incoherent,...through continuous differentiations and integrations.* f Translation into plain English.'] Evolution is a change from a nohowish, untalkaboutable, all-alikeness,... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1864 - 538 pages
...partial definitions we get a complete definition, which may be most conveniently expressed thus — Evolution is a change from an indefinite, incoherent...through continuous differentiations and integrations. It may perhaps be remarked that the last of these clauses is superfluous ; since the differentiation... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1865 - 666 pages
...to the movement of nature. Having done this, as he thinks, lie arrives at the following definition : "Evolution is a change from an indefinite incoherent...heterogeneity through continuous differentiations aud integrations." But teleology is a subtile poison, and lurks where least suspected. The facts of... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1872 - 538 pages
...accomplished by the words in which he at last defines the law of evolution. " Evolution," he says, " is a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity,...through continuous differentiations and integrations."* These words embarrass the reader, and obscure the subject, unless the reasons for their choice are... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1872 - 530 pages
...accomplished by the words in which he at last defines the law of evolution. " Evolution," he says, " is a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity,...through continuous differentiations and integrations."* These words embarrass the reader, and obscure the subject, unless the reasons for their choice are... | |
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