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EMERGENT EVOLUTION- THE GIFFORD LECTURES DELIVERED IN THE
UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS IN THE YEAR 1922 by C. LLOYD MORGAN.
Originally published in 1923. PREFACE: HALF a century ago, as years
run, a student was called on to take the chair at a dinner in
connection with the Royal School of Mines. Members of the staff
were present. And the fortunate youth was honoured by the support
of Professor Huxley. Which of the lines of science you have
followed has chiefly engaged your interest Following up the thread
of my reply, he drew from me the confession that an interest in
philosophy, and in the general scheme of things, lay deeper than my
interest in the practical applications of science to what then
purported to be my bread-and butter training. With sympathetic
kindliness that soon dispelled my fear of him he led me to speak
more freely, to tell him how this came about, what J had read, and
so on. That such a man should care to know what Berkeley and Hume
had done for me what I had got from Descartes Discourse how I was
just then embrangled in difficulties over Spinoza filled me with
glad surprise. His comments were so ripe and they were made to help
me Whatever else you may do, he said, keep that light burning. But
remember that biology has supplied a new and powerful illuminant.
Then speeches began. His parting words were When you have reached
the goal of your course, why not come and spend a year with us at
South Kensington So when I had gained the diploma of which so
little direct use was to be made, and when my need of the
illuminant, and my lack of intimate acquaintance with the facts on
which the new lamp shed light, had been duly impressed on me during
a visit to North America andBrazil, I followed his advice, attended
his lectures, and worked in his laboratory. On one of the memorable
occasions when he beckoned me to come to his private room he spoke
of St. George Mivart s Genesis of Species. I had asked him some
questions thereon a few days before to which he was then too busy
to reply and he gave me this opportunity of repeating them. Mivart
had said If then such innate powers must be attributed to chemical
atoms, to mineral species, to gemmules, and to physiological units,
it is only reasonable to attribute such to each individual organism
p. 260, I asked on what grounds this line of approach was
unreasonable for even then there was lurking within me some touch
of Pelagian heresy in matters evolutionary. Far from snub bing a
youthful heretic he dealt kindly with him. The question, he said,
was open to discussion but he thought Mivarts position was based on
considerations other than scientific. Any analogy between the
growth of a crystal and the development of an organism was of very
doubtful validity. Yes, Sir 1 I said, save in this that both invite
us to distinguish between an internal factor and the incidence of
external conditions He then asked what I under stood by innate
powers, saying that for Mivart they were the substantial forms of
scholastic tradition. I ventured to suggest that the School men and
their modern disciples were trying to explain what men of science
must perhaps just accept on the evidence. And I asked whether for
an innate power in the organism one might substitute what he had
taught us to call an internal metamorphic tendency which must be as
distinctly recognised as that of an internal conservative tendency
H. E. ii. p. 116. Ofcourse you may so long as you regard this
merely as an ex pression of certain facts at present unexplained. n
I then asked whether it was in this sense one should accept his
statement that nature does make leaps ii. pp. 77, 97 and, if this
were so, whether the difference on which Mivart laid so much stress
that between the mental capacities of animals and of men might not
be regarded as a natural leap in evolutionary progress. This was
the point to which I was leading up...
In the summer of 1910 a symposium on the subject of Instinct and
Intelligence was held in London at a joint meeting of the
Aristotelian and British Psychological Societies and of the Mind
association. Considerable interest in the discussion was shown both
in the room in which we met and beyond its walls. The papers then
taken as read, and subsequently published in the "British Journal
of Psychology," disclose not a little divergence in the sense in
which the terms instinctive and intelligent are used, an underlying
divergence in the principles on which the proffered interpretations
are based, and indications, more or less clear, of yet
deeper-seated differences of philosophical foundation.
EMERGENT EVOLUTION THE GIFFORD LECTURES DELIVERED IN THE UNIVERSITY
OF ST. ANDREWS IN THE YEAR 1922 BY C. LLOYD MORGAN, F. R. S. LONDON
WILLIAMS AND NORGAic, 1927. First Edition May 1923 Second Edition
March 1927 PREFACE HALF a century ago, as years run, a student was
called on to take the chair at a dinner in connection with the
Royal School of Mines. Members of the staff were present. And the
fortunate youth was honoured by the support of Professor Huxley.
Which of the lines of science you have followed has chiefly engaged
your interest Following up the thread of my reply, he drew from me
the confession that an interest in philosophy, and in the general
scheme of things, lay deeper than my interest in the practical
applications of science to what then purported to be my bread-and
butter training. With sympathetic kindliness that soon dispelled my
fear of him he led me to speak more freely, to tell him how this
came about, what J had read, and so on. That such a man should care
to know what Berkeley and Hume had done for me what I had got from
Descartes Discourse how I was just then embrangled in difficulties
over Spinoza filled me with glad surprise. His comments were so
ripe and they were made to help me Whatever else you may do, he
said, keep that light burning. But remember that biology has
supplied a new and powerful illuminant. Then speeches began. His
parting words were When you have reached the goal of your course,
vi PREFACE why not come and spend a year with us at South
Kensington So when I had gained the diploma of which so little
direct use was to be made, and when my need of the illuminant, and
my lack of intimate acquaintance with the facts on which the new
lamp shedlight, had been duly impressed on me during a visit to
North America and Brazil, I followed his advice, attended his
lectures, and worked in his laboratory. On one of the memorable
occasions when he beckoned me to come to his private room he spoke
of St. George Mivart s Genesis of Species. I had asked him some
questions thereon a few days before to which he was then too busy
to reply and he gave me this opportunity of repeating them. Mivart
had said If then such innate powers must be attributed to chemical
atoms, to mineral species, to gemmules, and to physiological units,
it is only reasonable to attribute such to each individual organism
p. 260, I asked on what grounds this line of approach was
unreasonable for even then there was lurking within me some touch
of Pelagian heresy in matters evolutionary. Far from snub bing a
youthful heretic he dealt kindly with him. The question, he said,
was open to discussion but he thought Mivarts position was based on
considerations other than scientific. Any analogy between the
growth of a crystal and the development of an organism was of very
doubtful validity. Yes, Sir 1 I said, save in this that both invite
us to distinguish between an internal factor and the incidence of
external conditions He then asked what I under stood by innate
powers, saying that for Mivart they were the substantial forms of
scholastic tradition. I ventured to suggest that the School men and
their modern disciples were trying to explain what men of science
must perhaps just accept on the evidence. And I asked whether for
an innate power in the organism one might substitute what he had
taught us to call an internal metamorphic tendency which must be as
distinctlyrecognised as that of an internal conservative tendency
H. E. ii. p. 116. Of course you may so long as you regard this
merely as an ex pression of certain facts at present unexplained. n
I then asked whether it was in this sense one should accept his
statement that nature does make leaps ii. pp. 77, 97 and, if this
were so, whether the difference on which Mivart laid so much stress
that between the mental capacities of animals and of men might not
be regarded as a natural leap in evolutionary progress. This was
the point to which I was leading up...
Im Sommer 1910 fand in London eine gemeinsame Tagung dreier
psychologischer Gesellschaften statt (Aristotelian und British
Psychological Society und Mind Association), die sich mit dem
Problem Instinkt-Intelligenz befasste. Die Erorterungen, die hier
gepflogen wurden, fanden uber den Kreis der Teilnehmer des
Kongresses hinaus das grosste Interesse. Kurz darauf erschienen die
Vortrage gedruckt in dem British Journal of Psychology. Sie zeigen
uns, wie ausserordentlich verschieden die einzelnen Autoren die
Begriffe instinktiv und intelligent verwenden und wie verschieden
die Grundlagen sind, aus denen sich die ver tretenen Ansichten
ableiten; ja aus verschiedenen Andeutungen geht mehr minder klar
hervor, dass diese Differenzen in tiefer gelegenen philosophischen
Unterschieden wurzeln. Die Ergebnisse der diskutierten Fragen
fuhren uns zu dem Lebensproblem und anderen grossen allgemeinen
Problemen hinan. Da ich ohnehin versprochen hatte, ein Werk uber
ein Thema der psychologischen Genese zu schreiben, so schien es mir
nicht ganz zwecklos, wenn ich meinen eigenen Anteil an der Debatte
in erweiterter und ausfuhrlicherer Form niederschriebe und auf
zeigte, wie sich mein eigener Standpunkt zu dem der ubrigen
Teilnehmer verhalt. Vor allem aber lag mir auch daran, der Lehre
von der Erfahrung eine festbestimmte Fassung zu geben, wie sie sich
im Laufe der Jahre unter dem Einfluss zahlreicher Fak toren, die
ich nicht einzeln anfuhren kann, in meinem Geiste entwickelt hat."
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1896 Edition.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1898 Edition.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1898 Edition.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1905 Edition.
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have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
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Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
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