| Alexander Wilford Hall - 1880 - 544 pages
...differentiated, till they were brought by evolution to perfection in the quadrumana, or till they were gradually developed from the simple to the complex and from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous, — while the branch leading toward the horse had its fingers and toes gradually taken away by evolution,... | |
| Alexander Wilford Hall - 1877 - 546 pages
...from the uniorganism to the multiplication of parts, from the indefinite to the definite structure, from the simple to the complex, and from the homogeneous to the Jtcterogcneous, I quote from the great modern philosopher and definer of general laws — Herbert Spencer,... | |
| Edgar Fawcett - 1889 - 248 pages
...it not, on more than mere personal sensation ?" " Evolution tells me that behind its vast changes, from the simple to the complex and from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous, lurks at least a symbolic conception of some supreme consciousness. These rhythmic waves of development... | |
| Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers - 1906 - 318 pages
...it is by this means alone that we can trace out the origin and evolution of culture in the earjiest times. /The task before us is to follow by means of...to the association of ideas, and so on to broader generalizations. This development has to be considered under the two heads of culture and constitution,... | |
| Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers - 1906 - 302 pages
...the succession of ideas by which the minds of men in a primitive condition of culture have progressed from the simple to the complex, and from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous. Many ethnological museums exist in this country and elsewhere, and therefore, in claiming to have accomplished... | |
| Borden Parker Bowne - 1908 - 352 pages
...complex kind, but such that they admit of producing a great variety of complications, thus passing from the simple to the complex and from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous. Every one will recall at this point the current formula of evolution, which claims to proceed from... | |
| Neal Larkin Anderson - 1926 - 168 pages
...that these factors operate in a way apparently so certain and well denned that there is a development from the simple to the complex, and from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous. This development scientists have agreed in calling " Evolution." Thus Evolution, from the scientific... | |
| Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1875 - 576 pages
...Midla, in other parts of South Australia it is called Ngeweangko, and in King George's Sound Miro. earliest stages of culture the arts are far more stable...to the association of ideas, and so on to broader generalizations. This development has to be considered under the two heads of culture and constitution,... | |
| E. O. James - 1970 - 168 pages
...the macrocosm of humanity as in the microcosm of the individual'. Therefore, Herbert Spencer's dictum 'From the simple to the complex and from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous', seemed to be an established principle in the cosmic, organic, human and religious orders. 2) Starting... | |
| Douglas Cole - 1995 - 402 pages
...the succession of ideas by which the minds of men in a primitive condition of culture have progressed from the simple to the complex, and from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous." His favorite example of evolutionary development was the boomerang; in his cases he laid out Australian... | |
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