 | Goldwin Smith - American essays - 1881 - 356 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... | |
 | Theology - 1881 - 814 pages
...law, which, stated in its most abstract form is this : — " Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion, during which the...retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation." The same law might be stated, we presume, somewhat as follows : All things are manifestations of force,... | |
 | Malcolm Guthrie - Knowledge, Theory of - 1882 - 504 pages
...The separation between Biology and Geology once seemed * " Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion, during which the...during which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation."—First Principlci, P- 396. impassable, and to many seems so now. But every day brings... | |
 | Henry George - 1882 - 104 pages
...For, considering its individuals as atoms, the growth of society is " an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion, during which the...heterogeneity, and during which the retained motion undergoes a par.illel transformation."* And thus an analogy may be drawn between the life of a society and the... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Philosophy, Modern - 1882 - 652 pages
...requisite addition, the formula finally atands thus : — Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion; during which the...homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity ; and daring which tlw retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation. CHAPTER XVIIT. THE INTERPRETATION... | |
 | Malcolm Guthrie - Knowledge, Theory of - 1882 - 506 pages
...relations precise. It was as follows : — " Evolution is integration, during which every existence passes from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity,...definite, coherent heterogeneity, and during which the activities undergo a parallel transformation." The fault of this formula is that it is not a proposition... | |
 | Malcolm Guthrie - Knowledge, Theory of - 1882 - 500 pages
...be " an accumulation .of insensible differentiations," whereas his own well-known definition runs, "Evolution is an integration of matter and a concomitant dissipation of motion," &c.f Now if Mr. Spencer is able to establish the theory that an insensible increment of differentiations... | |
 | Baptists - 1883 - 558 pages
...constructive process, according to a single fixed law. This law is finally couched in the well-known formula: "Evolution is an integration of matter and a concomitant...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... | |
 | Christianity - 1883 - 554 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 under,goes a parallel transformation.' (' First Principles,' § 145.) This is probably the most abstract, comprehensive, and accurate statement... | |
 | John Stahl Patterson - Life - 1883 - 526 pages
...component matter." His revised definition is as follows: " Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion; during which the...retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation." — (396). SECTION 149. — Evolution is the result of the play of forces in mutual relations of co-operation... | |
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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... 
