...unceasing redistribution of matter and motion, and that this redistribution constitutes evolution when there is a predominant integration of matter and dissipation...absorption of motion and disintegration of matter. He supposes that evolution is primarily integration, from the incoterent to the coherent, exemplified...

...the Church to Aquinas, or the Categories to Kant, that, and more than that, Evolution is to Spencer. 'Throughout the Universe, in general and in detail,...an unceasing redistribution of matter and motion.' Thus he opens his new Book of Genesis. . Surely, the most ardent Spencerian will hardly contend that...

...duty of Altruism, Over the portal of the Evolution Philosophy I see 1 engraved these words : — ' Throughout the Universe, in general, and in detail,...there is an unceasing redistribution of matter and of motion.' Over the portal of every Synthetic Philosophy which can command the full assent of the...

...intuitional methods — but on methods, he thinks, of positive science. His primary axiom is this. " Throughout the Universe, in general and in detail,...an unceasing redistribution of matter and motion." The cardinal principle of his Cosmical Philosophy is "an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation...

...religion, politics, and all the complex relations of social life. He starts from the principle that throughout the universe, in general and in detail,...an unceasing redistribution of matter and motion. This shows itself as evolution where there is a predominant aggregation of matter and diminution of...

...spontaneously. Herbert Spencer has summed up his own theory in the following sixteen propositions: — 1. Throughout the universe, in general and in detail,...evolution where there is a predominant integration of matterand dissipation of motion, and constitutes dissolution where there is a predominant absorption...

...unceasing redistribution of matter and motion, and that this redistribution constitutes evolution when there is a predominant integration of matter and dissipation...absorption of motion and disintegration of matter. He supposes that evolution is primarily integration, from the incoherent to the coherent, exemplified...

...abandons his "materialistic" basis when he comes to discuss ethics and sociology. The proposition, "Throughout the universe, in general and in detail,...an unceasing redistribution of matter and motion," is a mere assertion. And it appears paradoxical that it should be made by one "who is so keen a believer...