Capitolo 48
you/he/she has been more marvellouses its footsteps have really, been more separately entirely
historical; this way that any now the doubts the true descent of Italian,
French, and Spanish from the provincial Latin or the following growth of
the trireme, the 'Harry Gran', the 'the Victoria', and the 'Minotaur' from
the coracles or praus of the prehistoric antiquity.
The great conception of the origin of uniform and development of everybody
things, terrestrial or sidereal they added so above for us in the one word
evolution, neither it belongs from right to Charles Darwin neither to some other
only thinker. It is the united product of innumerable workers everybody,
working on, although some of them unconsciously, toward a great end
the unified philosophy of the cosmos. In astronomy, Kant, Laplace and the
Herschels; in the geology, Hutton, Lyell and the Geikies; in biology,
Buffon, Lamarck, the Darwins, Huxley and Spencer; in psychology,
Spencer, Romanes Macchiano and Ribot; in sociology, Spencer, Tylor,
Lubbock and De Mortillet--these have been the evolutionary head
teachers and discoverers. But the use of the evolution of same word, and
the establishment of the evolutionary and general theory as a system of
applicable philosophy to the whole universe, we owe to a man
alone--the Herbert Spencer. A lot of other minds--from Galileo and Copernicus,
from Kepler and Newton, from Linnaeus and Tournefort from Of Alembert and
Diderot, no, also, in a sense, from Aristotle and Lucretius--you/he/she had been
stacking together the enormous harvest of first subject from that that
the great and grandiose superstructure finally be build. But the
I design that put every block in his/her correct niche that planned and
drawn the whole elevation on that it firmly planted the building the
stone and lock the cyma-stone on the tallest pinnacle, was the author
of the 'System of the Synthetic Philosophy', and anybody other. It is a strange
test of as small people knows their his/her own ideas that among the
thousand that glibly talks every day of the evolution, not ten for cent. it is