There are two Chinese translated texts of T. H. Huxley's Introductory Science Primer (1880) published in 1886, one by the English missionary and Sinologist Joseph Edkins, the other by the English translator Henry Loch in cooperation with the Chinese writer Ju Anglai. The author finds that Edkins' translation is faithful to the English text and Loch's and Ju's translation is an abridgement. However, there are many mistakes in the language of the Edkins' translation, while the text of Loch and Ju is cor...
Henry More was one of the most influential figures in 17 th century in Britain. He employed natural philosophy to defend religion and established his philosophy based on it. More claimed that both matter and spirit are of extension. He argued that void exists and space is infinite, regarding space as a spiritual existence and one attribute of God. More’s concept of space became an important foundation of Newton’s idea of absolute space-time.
John Mill drew a distinction between "two modes of the conjoint action of causes". George Henry Lewes coined the term emergence based on Mill's idea. British emergentism developed the notion of emergence and the theory of hierarchical evolution and formed a system of philosophy. Contemporary theories of emergence inherit the core views of British emergentism and make a breakthrough in the origin and mechanism of emergence.