Literary notes about development (AI summary)
In literature, the term "development" is employed in a broad and versatile manner to illustrate processes of change and growth across a wide array of contexts. It is used to denote physical transformations, such as the metamorphosis of anatomical structures in biological studies [1] or the gradual structural changes in organisms [2], while also capturing narrative progress where the evolution of events or characters unfolds over time [3, 4]. Beyond the realm of the physical, the word is applied to describe intellectual, emotional, and societal maturation—from the early stages of mimicry in writing [5] to complex theories of personal and moral enrichment in educational and philosophical texts [6, 7, 8]. This varied usage attests to the concept’s capacity to encapsulate both concrete and abstract shifts, thereby enriching the dialogue within diverse literary genres.
- In connection with the complete metamorphosis of the gill-arches we find a further development of the auscultory organs.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget - In the Australian mammals, we see the process of diversification in an early and incomplete stage of development.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin - New characters may appear and old ones disappear at any stage of development, being inherited at a corresponding stage.
— from The Fables of Aesop by Aesop - Matters were in this state, when a new development quite drew our attention away from the original mystery.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle - It shows how much the gift of writing is, in the early stages of its development, the gift of mimicry.
— from The Story of My Life by Helen Keller - In a third I shall show how hard it is to discriminate subjective from objective factors in Truth's development.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James - Development according to nature, social efficiency, and culture or personal mental enrichment.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey - Our net conclusion is that life is development, and that developing, growing, is life.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey