...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...

...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...complex, from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous, by a series of differentiations. It brings out first the profounder distinctions, and afterward those...

...defined by Herbert Spencer as " consisting in a progress from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous, from the general to the special, from the simple to the complex ; and this process is considered to be traceable in the formation of the worlds in space, in the multiplication...

...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...

...Evolution in all cases meant progress toward perfection, the survival of the fittest, a change from the simple to the complex, from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous, and from the few to the multiplicity of parts. Whereas, a creature like the cow losing its teeth, or a...

...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...complex, from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous, by a series of differentiations. It brings out first the profounder distinctions, and afterwards those...

...not been sufficiently insisted on, that in the various branches of Social Science there is an advance from the general to the special, from the simple to the complex, analogous with that which is found in the series of the sciences, from Mathematics to Biology. To the...