Lectures and essays by William Kingdon Clifford (1879)
Clifford, William Kingdon, 1845-1879, Stephen, Leslie, Sir, 1832-1904 ed, Pollock, Frederick, Sir, 1845-1937 ed · London, Macmillan · leaf 107
cted.Differentiation from the environment takes place inweight, composition, and temperature. A polype islittle else than sea-water, which it inhabits; a fish isseveral degrees of temperature above it, and made of 96 CONDITIONS OF quite different materials ; till at last a mammal is 70° or80° above… … of the animal. Differentiation from other organismsmeans individuality ; integration with them sociahty. In a similar way we have a sort of general notion ofhigher and lower stages of mental development. I willendeavour to show that this general notion resolvesitself into a measure of the extent to…
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