“We have repeatedly observed that while any whole is evolving, there is always going on an evolution of the parts into which it divides itself; but we have not observed that this equally holds of the totality of things, which is made up of parts within parts from the greatest down to the smallest.”

—  Herbert Spencer

Pt. II, The Knowable; Ch. XIV, Summary and Conclusion
First Principles (1862)

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