Scholion

Benedicite was put into the text with the superscription "Scholion"

Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church 1894

Scholion he had definitely enunciated the law which runs as a theme throughout the volume, the observational and the theoretical part alike, the law that development is essentially a process of differentiation by which the germ becomes ever more and more individualised.

Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

It further displays the boldness of his English, that he is obliged to add "a Glosse or Scholion," for the use of the reader.

English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee

The first Scholion is directed against the theory of preformation, and succeeds in refuting it on the ground of simple observation.

Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

This can be expressed in a slightly different way, and the words which he chooses in the sixth Scholion to express this final and most general result are these: -- "The developmental history of the individual is the history of the growing individuality in every respect" (p. 263).

Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

In the third Scholion he elaborates this thought and shows that differentiation takes place in triple wise.

Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

The theme of the second Scholion is that the essential nature (_die Wesenheit_) of the animal determines its differentiation, that no stage of development is solely determined by the antecedent stage, but that throughout all stages the _Wesenheit_ or idea of the definitive whole exercises guidance.

Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

He had published his doubts in 1823, but his final confutation of the theory of parallelism is found in this Scholion.

Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

The fourth Scholion elaborates the analysis of developmental processes still further, and discusses in particular the scheme of development which is shown by the Vertebrata.

Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

According to many we have the principle of the conservation of energy virtually formulated for the first time in Newton's Scholion developing his third law of motion (action and reaction are equal and opposite), though his participation in the current erroneous conception of heat as a "caloric", or independent substance, prevented his clearly apprehending and explicitly formulating the principle.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913