...Selection ; Ernest Hackel's General Morphology). Spencer's definition of Evolution is as follows : — " Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant...retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation" (First Principles, pt. ii. ch. xvii. p. 396) This is, according to Spenoer, the universal Law of existence....

...that our survey of organic development completely justifies Mr. Spencer's technical statement: — "Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant...retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation." l Here, it will be observed, we have obtained a formula which applies not to organic development merely,...

..." Herbert Spencer," in Characters and Events, I. 45-^114. In the words of the original definition, "Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant...retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation." First Principles (4th Amer. ed., 19oo) , p. 4o7. 15. " The Instability of the Homogeneous," ibid.,...

...Force." The conception of "evolution" is developed in chapters 12 to 17 and is eventually defined as "an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion; during which the matter passes from a relatively indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a relatively definite, coherent heterogeneity and...

...definition of evolution was modified over the years, but this is its final form in First Principles: Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant...dissipation of motion; during which the matter passes from a relatively indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a relatively definite, coherent heterogeneity; and...

...in the epigraph for part II (p. 147). Spencer ( 1870, p. 396) had offered the following definition: "Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant...retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation." The memeology of James' marvelous parody is worth recording. I got the quotation from Garrett Hardin,...

...state to a more specialized, heterogeneous state. His final formula for evolution was the following: Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant...retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation." This definition was intended to apply not only to organic evolution, but to all levels of transformation,...

...invoked here: overarching all natural laws for Spencer was a general principle of evolution, defined as 'an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation...passes from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity', creating a natural movement of progress in all human and social...

...the instability of the homogeneous. In his First Principles (1862), Spencer defines the evolution as an "integration of matter and concomitant dissipation...during which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation."3 7 The mechanistic principles of force — the physical aspect and not the biological...

...syscem was Evolution. But to sustain his claim he was obliged to render his ox^n detinition. He said: "Evolution is an integration of Matter and concomitant...definite, coherent heterogeneity, and during which the retairied Motion undergoes a parallel transformation." Spencer cuts closely to the facts, but misses...