...rational, facilitating the acquisition of the principles and practice of medicine by gradually descending from the general to the special, from the simple to the complex. We trust that the author may be spared to complete the entire plan of his treatise in the same spirit...

...clearly enunciated by Goethe and Yon Baer as the law of animal life, namely, that development is always from the general to the special, from the simple to the complex, from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous, and this by a gradual series of differentiations* Or, to put...

...essential changes of evolution have been comprehensively formulated as from the simple to the complex, from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous, from the general to the special. Is this an a priori speculation, that is, an idea formed before observation and experience of the facts...

...A physical Cosmos, emerging by slow changes and under the action of regulated and unvarying forces, from the general to the special, from the simple to the complex, from the confused to the distinct : its parts deviating from and rising out of each other by regular gradation...

...A physical Cosmos, emerging by slow changes and under the action of regulated and unvarying forces, from the general to the special, from the simple to the complex, from the confused to the distinct : its parts deviating from and rising out of each other by regular gradation...

...been palaeozoic. The development of life on our globe, by whatever process, has proceeded very slowly from the general to the special, from the simple to the complex. It has not proceeded fortuitously, and species are not accidents. The history of the Horse is the exemplification...

...called metamorphoses, and in elude growth and repair. e~U*J ^ The process of development is a passage from the general to the special, from the simple to the complex, from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous, by a series of differentiations. It brings out first the profounder...

...and at this time the various muscles of the body can be distinguished. Development is thus seen to be from the general to the special, from the simple to the complex ; the trunk is first indicated ; while the peripheral parts — ie, the extremities, the digits, the...

...Reducing the conception to the greatest possible precision, Herbert Spencer defines evolution as a change 'from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous, from the general to the special, from the indefinite and simple to the definite and complex. On this hypothesis, the universe as it now exists...

...egg-life are called metamorphoses, and include growth and repair. The process of development is a passage from the general to the special, from the simple to the complex, from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous, by a series of differentiations. It brings out first the profounder...