... in the development of the Earth, in the development of Life upon its surface, in the development of Society, of Government, of Manufactures, of Commerce, of Language, Literature, Science, Art, this same evolution of the simple into the complex, through... The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms ... - Page viiby Scott E. Page - 2007 - 424 pagesLimited preview - About this book
| London coll. of the Presbyterian church in England - Apologetics - 1874 - 284 pages
...same advance from the simple to the complex, through successive differentiations, holds uniformly. From the earliest traceable cosmical changes down...homogeneous into the heterogeneous is that in which evolution essentially consists." To establish and illustrate this law Mr. Spencer has undertaken to... | |
| Robert Ellis Thompson - Business & Economics - 1875 - 438 pages
...evolution of the single into the complex, through successive differentiations, holds throughout. Prom the earliest traceable cosmical changes down to the latest results of civilization [it] is that in which progress essentially consists. ... As we see in existing barbarous tribes, society... | |
| Samuel Wainwright - Evolution - 1881 - 348 pages
...definite coherent heterogeneity, through continuous differentiations and integrations." And again : — " From the earliest traceable cosmical changes down...homogeneous into the heterogeneous is that in which evolution essentially consists." In perfect consistency with these statements Mr. Spencer further 1... | |
| Robert Ellis Thompson - Economics - 1882 - 442 pages
...same evolution of the single into the complex, through successive differentiations, holds throughout. From the earliest traceable cosmical changes down to the latest results of civilization [it] is that in which progress essentially consists. . . . As we see in existing barbarous tribes,... | |
| Robert Ellis Thompson - Economics - 1882 - 430 pages
...same evolution of the single intc the complex, through successive differentiations, holds throughout. From the earliest traceable cosmical changes down to the latest results of civilization [it] is that in which progress essentially consists. ... As we see in existing barbarous tribes, society... | |
| Philosophy - 1883 - 402 pages
...and art is the advance from simple to complex through successive differentiations, holds uniformly. From the earliest traceable cosmical changes, down...transformation of the homogeneous into the heterogeneous ia that in which evolution consists." This whole explanation ia just like his definition, except the... | |
| 1884 - 328 pages
...complex", through successive differentiations, holds throughout. From the earliest traceable cosmieal changes, down to the latest results of civilization,...into the heterogeneous, is that in which progress essentially consists." Touching for a moment upon the nebular hypothesis, we shall see what sanction... | |
| Robert Patterson - 1885 - 324 pages
...etc.* The homogeneousness of the original matter is the very basis of Spencer's theory of evolution. " From the earliest traceable cosmical changes down...homogeneous into the heterogeneous is that in which progress essentially consists."! So also the editors of the American Cyclopedia state the theory, " Assuming... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1891 - 494 pages
...same evolution of the simple into the complex, through successive differentiations, holds throughout. From the earliest traceable cosmical changes down...into the heterogeneous, is that in which progress essentially consists. With the view of showing that if the Nebular Hypothesis be true, the genesis... | |
| James Dyer Ball - China - 1893 - 532 pages
...Chinese have not yet learned with regard to government officials, in the words of Herbert Spencer, that ' the transformation of the homogeneous into the heterogeneous, is that in which progress essentially consists,' for a Mandarin is considered to be in a general way competent to undertake any... | |
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