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 | English language - 1900 - 570 pages
...inexplicable iu words. Mr. Herbert Spencer's language is sometimes unintelligible. He defines evolution as a change from an indefinite, incoherent, homogeneity,...through continuous "differentiations and integrations," which, interpreted into plain English by Mr. Eirkman, the mathematician, means : — "Erolution is... | |
 | Thomas Davidson - Education - 1900 - 310 pages
...ERIUGENA. HISTORY, as at present understood, is. a record of evolution, which, according to Mr. Spencer, is a " change from an indefinite," incoherent homogeneity...definite, coherent heterogeneity, through continuous differentia- j tions and integrations." EDUCATION is conscious or voluntary evolution. Henee^ HISTORY... | |
 | John Grier Hibben - Logic - 1902 - 336 pages
...Mr. Spencer employs in his well-known definition of biological evolution. " Evolution," says he, " is a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, through successive differentiations and integrations. " The change which is indicated by the Spen. cerian definition... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1904 - 692 pages
...the definition of the law which appears in the first edition of ' First Principles ' (1862) :— ' Evolution is a change from an indefinite, incoherent...through continuous differentiations and integrations ' (p. 216). The formula had not even yet, however, reached its final stage of elaboration. In 1864,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1904 - 710 pages
...the definition of the law which appears in the first edition of ' First Principles ' (1862) : — ' Evolution is a change from an indefinite, incoherent...through continuous differentiations and integrations ' (p. 216). The formula had not even yet, however, reached its final stage of elaboration. In 1864,... | |
 | Gerardus Johannes Petrus Josephus Bolland - Logic - 1905 - 512 pages
...waarmee ik dezen keer beginnen wil. Hij zegt namelijk op bladzijde 216 van z'n 'First Principles' : „Evolution is a change from an indefinite incoherent...through continuous differentiations and integrations." Dat wil zeggen : „Ontwikkeling is verandering van onbepaalde onsamenhangende gelijkslachtigheid in... | |
 | Books - 1905 - 1030 pages
...Menschen und seines Gehirnes, wie der Menschheit, der Erde und des Sonnensystems stellen sich alle dar als >change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity...through continuous differentiations and integrations.< *) Unser Standpunkt gestattet eine harmonische Vereinigung von Kausalität und Teleologie. Wie in unserem... | |
 | McGill University - 1905 - 418 pages
...From this point of view Evolution, being in Herbert Spencer's words, " Change from an inde finite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity,...through continuous differentiations and integrations," the History of Education is "a record of such evolution, and begins at the point when man takes himself... | |
 | John Grier Hibben - Logic - 1905 - 472 pages
...obscure definition. Such a definition is Herbert Spencer's of evolution. " Evolution is a continuous change from an indefinite incoherent homogeneity to a definite coherent heterogeneity through successive differentiations and integrations." In this definition every term used has a definite connotation... | |
 | Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison - Philosophy - 1907 - 422 pages
...at the definition of the law which appears in the first edition of ' First Principles ' (1862):— "Evolution is a change from an indefinite, incoherent...through continuous differentiations and integrations " (p. 216). The formula had not even yet, however, reached its final stage of elaboration. In 1864,... | |
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