The System of Animate Nature, Vol. 2 of 2: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of St. Andrews in the Years 1915 and 1916 (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from The System of Animate Nature, Vol. 2 of 2: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of St. Andrews in the Years 1915 and 1916 In the realm of organisms let us use the word development for the individual's becoming, for its ontogeny, for the expres sion of the inheritance amid appropriate nurture. Let us keep the word evolution for the phylogeny of the race as distinguished from the ontogeny of the individual. Then let us keep the word history for the human King dom of ends, where social persons are ...
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Excerpt from The System of Animate Nature, Vol. 2 of 2: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of St. Andrews in the Years 1915 and 1916 In the realm of organisms let us use the word development for the individual's becoming, for its ontogeny, for the expres sion of the inheritance amid appropriate nurture. Let us keep the word evolution for the phylogeny of the race as distinguished from the ontogeny of the individual. Then let us keep the word history for the human King dom of ends, where social persons are the new actualities. What words are used matters, perhaps, little; the point is that fallacy may be lessened by using differential terms, by speaking of the genesis of the solar system, the develop ment of the chick, the evolution of birds, and the history of institutions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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