 | John Fiske - Evolution - 1890 - 498 pages
...completely justifies Mr. Spencer's technical statement: — "Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion , during which the...retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation." l Here, it will be observed, we have obtained a formula which applies not to organic development merely,... | |
 | Geoffrey Hawthorn - Political Science - 1987 - 332 pages
...by 1900 (although the decision is clear even in the first edition), 'is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion; during which the...retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation '. This described the chain of events. 'Manifestly', Spencer continued, 'this community of result implies... | |
 | Bojan Buji ́c - Music - 1988 - 442 pages
...following: 'Evolution is an integration of matter, accompanied by a dissipation of movement, during which matter passes from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity...definite, coherent heterogeneity, and during which too the movement retained undergoes a similar transformation.' In more concrete terms, any combination... | |
 | Will Durant - Biography & Autobiography - 1965 - 736 pages
...intellect of Europe gasp for breath, and required ten volumes and forty years for its explanation. "Evolution is an integration of matter and a concomitant...during which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation."34 What does this this mean? The growth of planets out of nebulae; the formation of... | |
 | Robin Attfield - Nature - 2011 - 276 pages
...during which the matter passes from a relatively indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a relatively definite coherent heterogeneity; and during which...retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.' Presented at p. 47 of F. Howard Collins, Epitome of the Synthetic Philosophy of Herbert Spencer, London:... | |
 | Richard Hofstadter - Science - 1992 - 292 pages
...Events, I. 45-^114. In the words of the original definition, "Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion; during which the...retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation." First Principles (4th Amer. ed., 19oo) , p. 4o7. 15. " The Instability of the Homogeneous," ibid.,... | |
 | Charles S. Peirce - Literary Criticism - 1982 - 792 pages
...during which the matter passes from a relatively indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a relatively definite, coherent heterogeneity and during which...retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation" (pt. II, ch. 17, § 145). 405.17 Edgar R. Dawson,] Dawson's first letter to the editor of the New York... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - History - 1994 - 232 pages
...during which the matter passes from a relatively indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a relatively definite, coherent heterogeneity; and during which...retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation. Spencer named the ten volumes which were to introduce and apply his theory 'A System of Synthetic Philosophy'.... | |
 | Daniel C. Dennett - Philosophy - 1996 - 596 pages
...Spencer ( 1870, p. 396) had offered the following definition: "Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion; during which the...retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation." The memeology of James' marvelous parody is worth recording. I got the quotation from Garrett Hardin,... | |
 | Sharon E. Kingsland - Science - 1995 - 326 pages
...state. His final formula for evolution was the following: Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion; during which the...retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation." This definition was intended to apply not only to organic evolution, but to all levels of transformation,... | |
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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... 
