 Just as in a burning candle the impact of the oxygen atoms in the air against the carbon and hydrogen atoms in the melted and rarefied wax or tallow produces the light and heat of the flame, so in nebula or sun the impact of the various gravitating atoms...  The Cornhill Magazine - Page 33edited by - 1888Full view - About this book
 | George Matheson - Evolution - 1885 - 442 pages
...is intended to prove that they are not equal,—that there is a decided progress in the development from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous, from the incoherent to the coherent, from the indefinite to the definite. But if we take this in connection with his own confession that... | |
 | Science - 1888 - 920 pages
...are presumably due to the clashing together of their component atoms as they fall perpetually toward the central mass. Just as in a burning candle the...the trouble fairly and squarely to understand them. Every sun and every star thus formed is forever gathering in the hem of its outer robe upon itself,... | |
 | Barton S. Taylor - Nature - 1888 - 330 pages
...discovered he mentions in his definition of evolution. He concludes that it is a general law that things change from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous, from the incoherent to the coherent, from the indefinite to the definite. Such he concludes from observation and history to be the general... | |
 | Grant Allen - Science - 1890 - 478 pages
...clashing together of their component atoms as they fall perpetually towards the central mass. Just asm a burning candle the impact of the oxygen atoms in...the trouble fairly and squarely to understand them. Every sun and every star thus formed is for ever gathering in the hem of its outer robe upon itself,... | |
 | Jan Sapp - Science - 1994 - 272 pages
...to and dependent upon egoism.66 In Spencer's "synthetic philosophy," evolutionary progress proceeded from the "homogeneous" to the "heterogeneous," from the "incoherent" to the "coherent." As it did for the human social realm, progress in the natural realm meant increased specialization... | |
 | Otto Friedrich Raum - Education - 1996 - 472 pages
...super-organic world, the general developmental tendency being from the undifferentiated to the differentiated, from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous, from the incoherent to the coherent. He was accordingly obliged to trace the same individualizing tendency in mental and social evolution.... | |
 | Jan Sapp - Science - 2003 - 388 pages
...explanatory concept: evolution. All of evolutionary progress in nature and in society, he argued, proceeds from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous, from the incoherent to the coherent. Progress through open competition, the law of organic creation, would push humanity onward to perfection.... | |
 | David Amigoni - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 12 pages
...Arnold's condescension in God and the Bible (1875): In Mr Spencer's perspicuous phrase, evolution ... is a change from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous,...of meaning, lucidity and suggestiveness, if only we take the trouble fairly and squarely to understand them. 83 In fact, Allen entered into dialogue with... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1888 - 926 pages
...is presumably due to the clashing together of their component atoms as they fall perpetually tpward the central mass. Just as in a burning candle the...the trouble fairly and squarely to understand them. Every sun and every star thus formed is forever gathering in the hem of its outer robe upon itself,... | |
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