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... The Science-history of the Universe - Page 114by Francis Rolt-Wheeler - 1909Full view - About this book
| John Stahl Patterson - 1883 - 526 pages
...retained motion, as well as that of the component matter." His revised definition is as follows: " Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant...retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation." — (396). SECTION 149. — Evolution is the result of the play of forces in mutual relations of co-operation... | |
| 1883 - 774 pages
...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... | |
| 1883 - 554 pages
...further evident if we examine Mr. Herbert Spencer's famous formula of evolution. ' Evolution,' he says, ' is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation...retained motion under,goes a parallel transformation.' (' First Principles,' § 145.) This is probably the most abstract, comprehensive, and accurate statement... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1883 - 394 pages
...the great sentence there quoted as summing up Mr. Herbert Spencer's theory of evolution:—"Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation...retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation." Homer's poor little saying comes not in such formidable shape. It is only this : —Wide is the range... | |
| 1883 - 558 pages
...This law is finally couched in the well-known formula: "Evolution is an integration of matter and a concomitant dissipation of motion, during which the...retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation." The law, as finally stated, is thus an extension of Von Baer's law, and a reduction of the same to... | |
| Louis Compton Miall - 1883 - 72 pages
...with the famous definition of Evolution as " the integration of matter and concomitant dissolution of motion, during which the matter passes from an...retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.* " This may be all true," says one critic, "but it seems rather the blank form for a universe than anything... | |
| Henry Cotterill - 1883 - 250 pages
...question, we may give the definition in his words as follows : — Evolution is an integration of matter, during which the matter passes from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity, to a definite, coherent heterogeneity. Thus the growth of the plant into its completed organic form is the... | |
| Henry George - 1884 - 476 pages
...within the generalisations of evolution. For considering its individuals as atoms, the growth of society is "an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation...heterogeneity, and during which the retained motion undergoes ii parallel transformation."* And thus an analogy may be drawn between the life of a society and the... | |
| 1884 - 626 pages
...great truth, which we will not keep in reserve any longer, that ' the formula finally stands thus : Evolution is an ' integration of matter and concomitant...passes from an indefinite ' incoherent homogeneity to a definite coherent hetero' geueity ; and during which the retained motion undergoes ' a parallel transformation,'... | |
| Raymond St. James Perrin - 1885 - 602 pages
...to form such abstract generalizations as "concentration of matter " and "dissipation of motion" or " Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant...retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation" ' are useless, for the ultimate fact of motion is so obtrusive throughout that nothing is gained by... | |
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