 | 1880 - 820 halaman
...physical face of the unknowable, better known as matter and motion, had been passing "from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite coherent heterogeneity...through continuous differentiations and integrations," until at last particular sets of nervous plexuses in particular relations to the environment were organized.... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1872 - 522 halaman
...accomplished by the words in which he at last defines the law of evolution. " Evolution," he says, " is a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity,...through continuous differentiations and integrations."* These words embarrass the reader, and obscure the subject, unless the reasons for their choice are... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1873 - 552 halaman
...its logical claims. What is evolution ? "A change," says its chief exponent, " from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity, to a definite, coherent heterogeneity,...through continuous differentiations and integrations."! This, mark, is the God that is to produce the universe. Let us seek to grasp it. The homogeneous has... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1864 - 538 halaman
...partial definitions we get a complete definition, which may be most conveniently expressed thus — Evolution is a change from an indefinite, incoherent...through continuous differentiations and integrations. It may perhaps be remarked that the last of these clauses is superfluous ; since the differentiation... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1864 - 664 halaman
...mathematician (Kirkman) who made the following exquisite translation of a well-known definition : — Evolution is a change from an indefinite, incoherent,...through continuous differentiations and integrations.* {Translation into plain EnqlisTi.~\ Evolution is a change from a nohowish, untalkaboutablo, all-alikeness,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1865 - 666 halaman
...to the movement of nature. Having done this, as he thinks, lie arrives at the following definition : "Evolution is a change from an indefinite incoherent...heterogeneity through continuous differentiations aud integrations." But teleology is a subtile poison, and lurks where least suspected. The facts of... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1881 - 770 halaman
...mathematician (Kirkman) who made the following exquisite translation of a well-known definition : — " ' Evolution is a change from an indefinite, incoherent,...through continuous differentiations and integrations.' " [Translation into plain English] — ' Evolution is a change from a nohowish, untalkaboutable, all-alikeness,... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1872 - 530 halaman
...accomplished by the words in which he at last defines the law of evolution. " Evolution," he says, " is a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity,...through continuous differentiations and integrations."* These words embarrass the reader, and obscure the subject, unless the reasons for their choice are... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1872 - 538 halaman
...accomplished by the words in which he at last defines the law of evolution. " Evolution," he says, " is a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity,...through continuous differentiations and integrations."* These words embarrass the reader, and obscure the subject, unless the reasons for their choice are... | |
 | Borden Parker Bowne - 1874 - 294 halaman
...mystery of the absolute, and abandon the " carpenter theory " of creation for the higher view, that " evolution is a change from an indefinite, incoherent...through continuous differentiations and integrations." The discussion which involves all these harmonies is fitly called the " Laws of the Unknowable ; "... | |
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Evolution is a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, through continuous differentiations and integrations... 
