For how, without any action from without, can any heterogeneity emerge from perfect and absolute homogeneity?
Spencer invented the notion of a primordial homogeneity, from which it is impossible to conceive how any heterogeneity could originate.
Thus, the heterogeneity of the Family Fringillidae, as now recognized, is emphasized by differences in the muscle patterns of the leg.
We must not indeed contend that a shire-supported town with tenurial heterogeneity came into existence wherever Edward the Elder or the Lady of the Mercians 'wrought a burh.
But this tenurial heterogeneity seems to be an attribute of all or nearly all the very ancient boroughs, the county towns.
In this heterogeneity we may also see one reason why a very stringent peace, the king's own house-peace, should be maintained, and why the borough should have a moot of its own.
In the old home of the West-Saxon kings there may well have been towns which had long ago secured the name and the peace of royal burgs, though they manifested none of that tenurial heterogeneity which is the common mark of a borough.
The trait to which we allude we shall call (for want of a better term) the tenurial heterogeneity of the burgesses.
Of the more innocent kinds of heterogeneity I find a good example in Mrs. Annie Besant's autobiography.
All writers about that temperament make the inner heterogeneity prominent in their descriptions.
The psychological basis of the twice-born character seems to be a certain discordancy or heterogeneity in the native temperament of the subject, an incompletely unified moral and intellectual constitution.
This amount of inconsistency will only count as amiable weakness; but a stronger degree of heterogeneitymay make havoc of the subject's life.
He says, 'heterogeneity as a statical force can only have come into play when a system of kinship led the hordes to look on the children of their foreign women as belonging to the stocks of their mothers.
The physicists have more or less consciously perceived this, and, not being able to overcome by a frontal attack the difficulty created by the heterogeneity of our sensations, they have turned its flank.
It seems to me it should be split up into two propositions of very unequal value: 1, the mind and body are heterogeneous; 2, by virtue of this heterogeneity it is not possible to understand any direct relation between the two.
On looking closely into it, we shall perceive that the principle of heterogeneity does not contain the consequences it is sought to ascribe to it.
It seems that all materialists have acknowledged that here is the vulnerable point in their theory, for it is the principle of heterogeneity which they have especially combated.
These three quotations show very conclusively that their authors thought they could establish the heterogeneity of the two phenomena by opposing matter to sensation.
Now I do not very clearly understand in what the principle of heterogeneity can consist to a mind which admits, on the other hand, that psychology does not differ from the physical sciences by its content.
No time that can be measured is duration, for heterogeneity is not quantity, not measurable.
If any demonstration is necessary that these terms do imply each other, instead of excluding each other, the case of heterogeneity and homogeneity is only the case of resemblance and difference (cf.
In regard to the heterogeneity of space, its differentiation by way of direction must not be forgotten.
Bergson’s thought vacillates this way because he attributes two incompatible characters to the inner life, qualitative heterogeneityand mutual penetration of its states.
Grant the heterogeneity and you have an infinitesimal dust, the very denial of connection and penetration.
Psychic multiplicity is non-numerical in the same sense and for the same reason that psychic intensity is non-quantitative, namely that it is pure heterogeneity and temporality.
The original independence and heterogeneity of impressions and of thought is so great that there is no way to compare the results of the latter with the former.
Lord Rayleigh has pointed out that the difference may arise from the heterogeneity of alloys.
In the regions of greatest linguistic mixture is the greatest heterogeneity of cephalic index.
The nationalist school depended on denial and repression of the existence of heterogeneity and of national minorities.
It is that which sustains the constant heterogeneity of the organic factors, the electrical tension.
The heterogeneity of the three terrestrial elements in a circumscribed individual body is the vital force.
The Character of Chinese Myth The nature of the case thus forbids us to expect to find the Chinese myths exhibiting the advanced state and brilliant heterogeneity of those which have become part of the world's permanent literature.
Thus the influences that determine this division of labour grow stronger in both ways; and the incipient heterogeneity is, on the average of cases, likely to become permanent for that generation, if no longer.
As yet, however, there was but little heterogeneity in the time of their music.
If the advance of Man towards greater heterogeneity is traceable to the production of many effects by one cause, still more clearly may the advance of Society towards greater heterogeneity be so explained.
Thus, in the natural course of things, there will from time to time arise an increased heterogeneity both of the Earth's flora and fauna, and of individual races included in them.
Higher than these in heterogeneity are the hydrates; in which an oxide of hydrogen, united with an oxide of some other element, forms a substance whose atoms severally contain at least four ultimate atoms of three different kinds.
The existence of genuine connexions of all manner of heterogeneity cannot be doubted.
To deny this qualitative heterogeneity is to reduce the struggles and difficulties of life, its comedies and tragedies to illusion: to the non-being of the Greeks or to its modern counterpart, the "subjective.
In the preceding chapter I have spoken about the heterogeneity of the Japanese as a race.
That every influence brought to bear upon society works multiplied effects; and that increase of heterogeneityis due to this multiplication of effects; may be seen in the history of every trade, every custom, every belief.
But we have yet to notice another kind of heterogeneity of surface similarly and simultaneously caused.
And similarly, it is manifest that as fast as the division of labour among the classes of a community, becomes greater, there must be an increasing heterogeneity in the currents of merchandise flowing throughout that community.
If the advance of Man towards greater heterogeneity is traceable to the production of many effects by one cause still more clearly may the advance of Society towards greater heterogeneity be so explained.
