 | George Matheson - Evolution - 1885 - 442 pages
...gives the following definition of the word "evolution": "Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion, during which the...retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation." l The first thing to which we have here to direct our attention is the word " during." This word marks... | |
 | Raymond St. James Perrin - Religion - 1885 - 606 pages
..."concentration of matter " and "dissipation of motion," or " Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion, during which the...retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation" ' are useless, for the ultimate fact of motion is so obtrusive throughout that nothing is gained by... | |
 | William Arthur - Agnosticism - 1885 - 576 pages
...full as heterogeneous, though to our eye more uniform. " Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion, during which the...during which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation."1 This is not the place to enter on an examination of so wide a subject. Leaving out... | |
 | George Matheson - Evolution - 1885 - 442 pages
...formative force ? Let us quote his own words. He says, " Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion, during which the...passes from an indefinite incoherent homogeneity to a definite coherent heterogeneity." There are three things which, in the view of Mr Spencer, are here... | |
 | Agnosticism - 1885 - 612 pages
...trait. Amending our definition, and transposing the clauses, we get, as a finished formula—Evolution is an integration of matter and a concomitant dissipation of motion ; during which t/ie matter passes from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1883 - 610 pages
...Herbert Spencer's famous formula of evolution. ' Evolution,' he says, ' is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion ; during which the...retained motion undergoes a parallel trans-formation.' (' First Principles,' § 145.) This is probably the most abstract, com-prehensive, and accurate statement... | |
 | William Henry Platt - Supernatural - 1886 - 374 pages
...matter and motion. He says, " the formula finally is : Evolution is the integration of matter, and concomitant dissipation of motion ; during which the...retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation." (FP, § 145.) If this is a definition of evolution, then what is correlation ? If this is a definition... | |
 | Joseph Smith Van Dyke - Evolution - 1886 - 494 pages
...being once wound up was left to tell off its fated periods. "Neither so do their witness agree." pation of motion; during which the matter passes from an...retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation " (p. 396). This definition is an evolution out of a protracted series of arguments as presented in... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Philosophy, Modern - 1886 - 662 pages
...: — Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion; during which tha matter passes from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity...retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation. CHAPTER XVIIT. THE INTERPRETATION OF EVOLUTION. § 1 1(t. Is this law ultimate or derivative ? Must... | |
 | William Todd Martin - Evolution - 1887 - 344 pages
...perfected form, which stands thus : — " Eeolution is an integration of matter and con- \ comitant dissipation of motion; during which the matter passes...retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation." * This formula expresses the one law which covers all the knowable, embraces all concrete being, and... | |
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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... 
