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Excerpt from The System of Animate Nature, Vol. 2 of 2: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of St. Andrews in the Years 1915 and 1916
In the realm of organisms let us use the word development for the individual's becoming, for its ontogeny, for the expres sion of the inheritance amid appropriate nurture. Let us keep the word evolution for the phylogeny of the race as distinguished from the ontogeny of the individual.
Then let us keep the word history for the human King dom of ends, where social persons are the new actualities.
What words are used matters, perhaps, little; the point is that fallacy may be lessened by using differential terms, by speaking of the genesis of the solar system, the develop ment of the chick, the evolution of birds, and the history of institutions.
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