 | 1864 - 822 pages
...kind of evidence he brings of the working of this principle. " Can it, then, be thought improbable, seeing that variations useful to man have undoubtedly...sometimes occur in the course of thousands of generations ? " This is the character of the evidence on which he depends. What appears to him probable is to be... | |
 | Great Britain - 1860 - 564 pages
...beings to each other, and to their physical conditions of life. Can it, then, be thought improbable, seeing that variations useful to man have undoubtedly...can we doubt (remembering that many more individuals nre born than can possibly survive) that individuals having any advantage, however slight, over others,... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1860 - 556 pages
...beings to each other, and to their physical conditions of life. Can it, then, be thought improbable, seeing that variations useful to man have undoubtedly...sometimes occur in the course of thousands of generations 1 If such do occur, can we doubt (remembering that many more individuals are born than can possibly... | |
 | 1861 - 824 pages
...organic beings to each other and to their physical conditions o; life. Can it then be thought improbable, seeing that variations useful to man have undoubtedly...occurred, that other variations useful in some way in the great and complex battle of life, should sometimes occur in the course of thousands of generations?... | |
 | John Watts - Free thought - 1865 - 206 pages
...some degree plastic ; its variations useful to man have undoubtedly occurred, is it not to be expected that other variations, useful in some way to each...course of thousands of generations ? If such do occur, then, remembering the struggle for existence, individuals possessing any advantage over others would... | |
 | Biology - 1894 - 1218 pages
...the best, and thereby " improves " the breed. "Can it, then, be thought improbable," says Darwin, " seeing that variations useful to man have undoubtedly...being in the great and complex battle of life, should occur in the course of many successive generations ? If such do occur, can we doubt (remembering that... | |
 | Ephraim Chambers - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1870 - 872 pages
...or greater distinctions in a state of nature. ' Can it l>e thought improbable,' he says, ' set>ing that variations useful to man have undoubtedly occurred,...way to each being in the great and complex battle uf life, should sometimes occur in the course of thousands of generations? If such do occur, can we... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1875 - 504 pages
...might be of use to each being under changing conditions of life. Can it, then, be thought improbable, seeing that variations useful to man have undoubtedly...occurred, that other variations useful in some way tc each being in the great and complex battle of life, should occur in the course of many successive... | |
 | T Warren O'Neill - Evolution - 1880 - 482 pages
...of generations," he says : • " Can it be thought improbable (sic) seeing that variations useful tp Man have undoubtedly occurred, that other variations...way, to each being, in the great and complex battle for life, should sometimes occur in the course of thousands (sic) of generations? If such variations... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1882 - 494 pages
...might be of use to each being under changing conditions of life. Can it, then, be thought improbable, seeing that variations useful to man have undoubtedly...occurred, that other variations useful in some way tc each being in the great and complex battle of life, should occur ic the course of many successive... | |
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Can it then be thought improbable, seeing that variations useful to man have undoubtedly occurred, that other variations useful in some way to each being in the great and complex battle of life, should occur in the course of many successive generations?... 
