The correspondence as increasing in speciality.

Citation

Spencer, H. (1855). The correspondence as increasing in speciality. In H. Spencer, The principles of psychology (pp. 423-436). London, Great Britain: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/14065-040

Abstract

From another point of view, the evolution of life is an advance in the Speciality of the correspondence between internal and external relations. Just as we saw that in so far as mechanical phenomena are concerned, the extension of the correspondence goes on pari passu in Space and in Time, but that the extension of the correspondence in Time, afterwards takes in many other orders of phenomena; so, though at first the increase of the correspondence in Speciality is inseparable from its extension in Space and Time, yet it presently comes to include innumerable correspondences not comprehended under either of these. Objectively, the entire development of the correspondence is essentially one: the limitations of our intellects prevent us from grasping it as one: and it is an inconvenience accompanying the presentation of it in parts, that the divisions more or less overlap each other. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)