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The Philosophy of Herbert Spencer

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Herbert Spencer explained what evolution is in the first edition of The First Principles, which constituted the introduction to his whole Synthetic Phil...

Herbert Spencer explained what evolution is in the first edition of The First Principles , which constituted the introduction to his whole Synthetic Philosophy , as a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity, to a definite, coherent heterogeneity; through continuous differentiations and integrations. (cited Taylor, p. 63 ) [1] Spencer, however, found this to be not clear enough, and by the sixth edition the explanation had expanded into the statement that evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion; during which the matter passes from a relatively indef

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