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of evolutionism.
The majority of great phiosophers have been evolutionists and not emanationists.
The distinguishing peculiarities of Spencer's Evolutionism were two.
In the first place, he supposed an eternal and immutable law of the persistence of force, and the principle of Evolution was for him a mere secondary result of the action of that Immutable Law.
In the second place, Evolution for him, as he states in the distinctest language in a paper printed in Collier;s Synopsis Synthetic Philosophy, was only one of two alternating moverments which he regarded as analogous to a vibration and like a vibration to be governed by the