 | Methodist Church - 1876 - 782 pages
...Fiske reproduces Spencer's doctrine of evolution, and adopts his famous definition, as follows : " Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant...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
...definition of this term, as given by its great expositor and advocate, Herbert Spencer, is as follows : " Evolution is an integration of matter, and concomitant...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
...Further qualifications contained in a succeeding chapter, bring the formula to this final form — " Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant...retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation." Now if these various traits of the process of Evolution are kept simultaneously in view, it will be... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Philosophy, English - 1870 - 600 pages
...thus :—Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion; during which tho matter passes from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity...retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation. CHAPTER XVIIT. THE INTERPRETATION OF EVOLUTION. § 140. Is this law ultimate or derivative ? Must we... | |
 | H. Charlton Bastian - Biology - 1872 - 862 pages
...be compound1.' What usually occurs in the latter case is indicated by the following definition3: — 'Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant...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 - 530 pages
...definition of this term, as given by its great expositor and advocate, Herbert Spencer, is as follows : " Evolution is an integration of matter, and concomitant...retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation." First Prin., 2nd ed. p. 896. This definition will scarcely, -however, make it evident how the great... | |
 | Science - 1882 - 966 pages
...those of life and growth. The definition of evolution which Mr. Spencer formulates is as follows : " Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant...retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation." Dissolution is the reverse of this. We have, then, to see if inflammation corresponds to a definition... | |
 | H. Charlton Bastian - Life - 1872 - 834 pages
...be compound1.' What usually occurs in the latter case is indicated by the following definition2: — 'Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant...retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.' The presence of much retained internal motion in an aggregate undergoing condensation, is the peculiarity... | |
 | Charles Robert Bree - Bible and evolution - 1872 - 518 pages
...arguments. MR. HERBERT SPENCER defines evolution in the sense used by the Darwinian school as follows: — ' Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant...retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.' ' Interpreted by the close reasoning of the 395 pages which precede this formula in the work indicated,... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1872 - 538 pages
...definition of this term, as given by its great expositor and advocate, Herbert Spencer, is as follows : " Evolution is an integration of matter, and concomitant...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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Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion ; during which the matter passes from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity ; and during •which the retained motion undergoes a parallel... 
