Preliminary statement : a synthesis of modern science / by Marshall Bruce Williams.

  • Bruce-Williams, Marshall.
Date:
[1905]
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    to wliat is due to Tlie tine arguments of specialists as Heredity and what to Environment are not here entered into. Man is a creature wlio lives in the Past. Present and Future, and as this is a necessary i)ractical division of time, so I assume the general ))rinci])le of Evolution to require, for both philosophic and practical purposes, a similar division. Exfoliation.—Professor Weissmann was the hrst to use the word, Ixit without defining its meaning. I use it simply to get a necessary division in my bureaus, to recoi'd any Individual or S(.)cial characteristics that arise from placing an inherited facult} in a particular environment. In dealing with simple statisties these words become ; “ Ihe coming or present year”; the past 10, or any other number of years suitalde to the subject; ami pi'evious decades. The decimal .system is the uniform standard of measurement here, as elsewhere. In dealing with astronomieal periods, laigei periods (h' time would, of course, l>e used. xVIl this, howevei, is only a part of the mecltankal adjnstmeut of any particular bureau to the subject being analysed by it. Idiis idea of three aspects of growth is perfectly familiar to us under the old form of the Egyptian, etc.. Trinities.