...Fiske reproduces Spencer's doctrine of evolution, and adopts his famous definition, as follows : " Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant...retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation." Of this definition much might be said. The word indefinite must not be taken strictly for that which...

...definition of this term, as given by its great expositor and advocate, Herbert Spencer, is as follows : " Evolution is an integration of matter, and concomitant...retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation." First Prin., 2nd ed. p. 396. This definition will scarcely, however, make it evident how the great...

...Further qualifications contained in a succeeding chapter, bring the formula to this final form — " Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant...retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation." Now if these various traits of the process of Evolution are kept simultaneously in view, it will be...

...change their order. Doing this, and making the requisite addition, the formula finally stands thus : — Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant...passes from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coke-rent heterogeneity ; and during which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation....

...addition, the formula finally stands thus : — Evolution is an integration of matter and con-} comitant dissipation of motion; during which the matter passes from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a de-\ finite, coherent heterogeneity ; and during which tlie retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation....

...change their order. Doing this, and making the requisite addition, tho formula finally stands thus :—Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion; during which tho matter passes from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity...

...intellectual — was included in it It is as follows : Evolution is an integration of matter and a concomitant dissipation of motion, during which the...heterogeneity, and during which the retained motion undergoes a partial transformation. This general formula includes all evolution, organic and inorganic, and interprets...

...be compound1.' What usually occurs in the latter case is indicated by the following definition2: — 'Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant...retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.' The presence of much retained internal motion in an aggregate undergoing condensation, is the peculiarity...

...be compound1.' What usually occurs in the latter case is indicated by the following definition3: — 'Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant...retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.' The presence of much retained internal motion in an aggregate undergoing condensation, is the peculiarity...

...arguments. MR. HERBERT SPENCER defines evolution in the sense used by the Darwinian school as follows: — ' Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant...retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.' ' Interpreted by the close reasoning of the 395 pages which precede this formula in the work indicated,...