 | Criticism - 1876 - 826 pages
...summing up Mr. Herbert Spencer's theory of evolution : ' Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion during which the...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... | |
 | Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - Baptists - 1876 - 528 pages
...Creator. He writes, in the lucid Hegelian dialect : " Evolution is the integration of matter and the concomitant dissipation of motion during which the...retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation." Unitarianism, therefore, in the experience of a large number who still cling to the name, has ceased... | |
 | Thomas Rawson Birks - 1876 - 346 pages
...and reasonings of eight successive chapters of the work. " Evolution is an integration of matter, and concomitant dissipation of motion ; during which the...retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation." Simple evolution, according to the theory now to be further examined, consists mainly in the aggregation... | |
 | John Cotton Smith - 1876 - 272 pages
...wanting in clearness of statement, defines it as follows : " Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion / during which the...during which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.'1'' Scientific as such a definition is, it is evidently unfit for popular use. We must... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Philosophy, Modern - 1876 - 610 pages
...addition, the formula finally stands thus : — Evolution is an integration of matter and con* comitant dissipation of motion; during which the matter passes...retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation. CHAPTER XVIIT. THE INTERPRETATION OF EVOLUTION. § 14(,. Is this law ultimate or derivative ? Must... | |
 | H. Malet - Dust control - 1877 - 290 pages
...a quotation from Herbert Spencer (work not noted) — " Evolution is an integration of matter, and concomitant dissipation of motion, during which the...retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation." The author of this definition required a few hundred pages for its explanation, but a few words will... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Philosophy, Modern - 1877 - 608 pages
...the requisite addition, the formula finally stands thus :—Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion; during which the...retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation. CHAPTER XVIII. THE INTERPRETATION OF EVOLUTION. § 146. Is this law ultimate or derivative ? Must we... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1877 - 812 pages
...with a sense of new knowledge when we are told that human history is " an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion ; during which the...retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation." But a little reflection suggests to us that such a philosophy is vitiated by the assumption involved... | |
 | English literature - 1877 - 532 pages
...with a sense of new knowledge when we are told that human history is " an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion; during which the...retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation." But a little reflection suggests to us that such a philosophy is vitiated by the assumption involved... | |
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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... 
