Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1884 — What is Evolution! [ARTICLE]

What is Evolution!

This word is in constant use in all the literatures of the world. Indeed with some writer it is as important a' YFord as law, force, nature, and even God. Herbert Spencer has helped to make it fashionable, and this is the definition of it: ~ “Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion, during whi6h the matter passes from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, and during which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.” __ J, To the average reader this is about as clear as mu 4,; but its meaning Seems to be that there is a process in nature which unfolds or develops higher from lower types of existence. , It corr«WDonds to .the word progress as applied xo the course of history in human affairs.—pemorest's Monthly.