... 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
| Theology - 1904 - 626 pages
...same evolution of the simple into the complex, through successive differentiations, holds throughout. From the earliest traceable cosmical changes down...homogeneous into the heterogeneous is that in which progress essentially consists." The young railroad engineer had gradually, through his participation in the... | |
| James Dyer Ball - China - 1926 - 784 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... | |
| Jacob Opper - Art and science - 1973 - 234 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. Scoon comments on the above passage that not only was evolution "the fundamental... | |
| John Herman Randall Jr. - Philosophy - 1977 - 372 pages
...throughout. From the earliest traceable cosmica! changes down to the latest results of civili/.ation, we shall find that the transformation of the homogeneous...into the heterogeneous, is that in which Progress essentially consists. (3) This law Spencer proceeds to illustrate in the Nebular Hypothesis, in the... | |
| Daniel Bell - Social Science - 128 pages
...same evolution of the simple into the complex through successive differentiations holds throughout. From the earliest traceable cosmical changes down...homogeneous into the heterogeneous is that in which progress essentially consists. In that towering facade, The Principles of Sociology (whose construction took... | |
| Walter L. Wallace - Social Science - 578 pages
...differentiations, holds throughout. From the earliest traceable cosmical changes down to the latest result of civilization, we shall find that the transformation...into the heterogeneous, is that in which progress essentially consists (1972:40). And also, not long after, in Durkheim: "the more specialized the functions... | |
| Robert Maxwell Young - Great Britain - 1971 - 380 pages
...of the earth, life, society, government, manufacture, commerce, language, literature, science, art. "From the earliest traceable cosmical changes down...civilization, we shall find that the transformation of the homogenous into the heterogenous, is that in which Progress essentially consists." His litany is "Progress... | |
| Niklas Luhmann - Social Science - 1985 - 260 pages
...same evolution of the simple into the complex, through successive differentiations, holds throughout. From 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... | |
| M. Schmid, Franz M. Wuketits - Philosophy - 1987 - 286 pages
...definite, coherent heterogeneity through continuous differentiations and integrations" (1862, p. 216). "From the earliest traceable cosmical changes down to the latest results of civilization, Spencer wrote in Progress, Its Law and Cause (1892 (1857), p. 10), "we shall find that transformation... | |
| Brian Morris - Religion - 1987 - 386 pages
...same evolution of the simple into the complex, through successive differentiations, holds throughout. From 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... | |
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