... Society, of Government, of Manufactures, of Commerce, of Language, Literature, Science, Art, this same evolution of the simple into the complex, through successive differentiations, holds throughout. From the earliest traceable cosmical changes down... Things Chinese: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with China - Page 326by James Dyer Ball - 1893 - 501 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1857 - 602 pages
...From the earliest traceable cosmical changes down to the latest results of civilization, we shall find that the transformation of the homogeneous into the...heterogeneous is that in which Progress essentially consists. With the view of showing that if the Nebular Hypothesis be true, the genesis of the solar system supplies... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1857 - 624 pages
...the earliest traceable cosinical changes down to the latest results of civilization, we shall find that the transformation of the homogeneous into the...heterogeneous is that in which Progress essentially consists. With the view of showing that if the Nebular Hypothesis be true, the genesis of the solar system supplies... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1858 - 466 pages
...From the earliest traceable cosmical changes down to the latest results of civilization, we shall find that the transformation of the homogeneous into the...heterogeneous, is that in which Progress essentially consists. With the view of showing that if the Nebular Hypothesis be true, the genesis of the solar system supplies... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1858 - 460 pages
...From the earliest traceable cosmical changes down to the latest results of civilization, we shall find that the transformation of the homogeneous into the...heterogeneous, is that in which Progress essentially consists. With the view of showing that if the Nebular Hypothesis be true, the genesis of the solar system supplies... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1862 - 528 pages
...From the earliest traceable cosmical changes down to the latest results of civilization, we shall find that the transformation of the homogeneous into the heterogeneous, is that in which Evolution essentially consists. § 44. With the view of showing that if the Nebular Ilypothesis be... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1864 - 538 pages
...From the earliest traceable cosmical changes down to the latest results of civilization, we shall find that the transformation of the homogeneous into the heterogeneous, is that in which Evolution essentially consists. § 44. With the view of showing that if the Nebular Hypothesis be true,... | |
| 1865 - 912 pages
...the earliest traceable cosmical changes down to the latest results of civilisation, •we shall find that the transformation of the homogeneous into the heterogeneous is that in which evolution essentially consists."— Pp. 148-9. That this is true of literal organisms, of course, is... | |
| London coll. of the Presbyterian church in England - 1874 - 284 pages
...From the earliest traceable cosmical changes down to the latest results of civilization, we shall find that the transformation of the homogeneous into the heterogeneous is that in which evolution essentially consists." To establish and illustrate this law Mr. Spencer has undertaken to... | |
| Samuel Wainwright - 1881 - 348 pages
...From the earliest traceable cosmical changes down to the latest results of civilization we shall find that the transformation of the homogeneous into the heterogeneous is that in which evolution essentially consists." In perfect consistency with these statements Mr. Spencer further 1... | |
| 1884 - 328 pages
...the earliest traceable cosmieal changes, down to the latest results of civilization, we shall find that the transformation of the homogeneous into the...heterogeneous, is that in which progress essentially consists." Touching for a moment upon the nebular hypothesis, we shall see what sanction it gives to our theory... | |
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