Herbert Spencer and Animal Evolution: The Herbert Spencer Lecture Delivered at the Museum on the 2nd December 1990 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Bourne, Gilbert Charles

9780484206068: Herbert Spencer and Animal Evolution: The Herbert Spencer Lecture Delivered at the Museum on the 2nd December 1990 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Herbert Spencer and Animal Evolution: The Herbert Spencer Lecture Delivered at the Museum on the 2nd December 1990

I have not the time, and I do not think it is necessary, to give references and quotations; but it is, I think, a fair summary of Herbert Spencer's philosophical treatment of biological phenomena, to say that, for him, evolution is, in all its forms, a becoming of the hetero geneous and complex out of the homogeneous and simple. Thus, in his First Principles, he begins With a considera tion of chemical and physical laws, and after treating of the interaction of these laws in the production of inorganic phenomena, he proceeds to apply the same principles] to. The solution of the problems offered by organic phenomena. I may give one quotation to illustrate his point of view.

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