 It may metaphorically be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest ; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good ; silently and insensibly working,...  The North British review - Page 4791860Full view - About this book
 | Constance E. Plumptre - Causation - 1888 - 210 pages
...world the slightest variations, rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that are good ; silently and insensibly working, whenever and...relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life" ; our theory of ethics must be modified accordingly. If (what, after all, has passed into a commonplace)... | |
 | Brooklyn Ethical Association - Evolution - 1889 - 424 pages
...whole machinery of life. ... It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing throughout the world every variation, even the slightest;...to its organic and inorganic conditions of life." In the struggle for existence, always going on, it is evident that individuals having the least advantage... | |
 | Thomas Spencer Baynes - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 924 pages
...world, the slightest variations, rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that are good, silently and insensibly working, whenever and...relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life. It may operate on characters which we are apt to consider of very trifling importance, and its accumulation... | |
 | Daniel Rees - Ethics - 1892 - 80 pages
...world, the slightest variations ; rejecting those that are bad , preserving and adding up all that are good ; silently and insensibly working, whenever and...relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life."1) From the nature of the case, natural selection works only for the good of the organism ; it... | |
 | Arthur Bower Griffiths - 1892 - 512 pages
...world, the slightest variations ; rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that are good ; silently and insensibly working, whenever and...wherever opportunity offers, at the improvement of cach organic hcing in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life. We see nothing of these... | |
 | Charles Clement Coe - Evolution - 1895 - 638 pages
...world the slightest variations, rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that are good, silently and insensibly working whenever and...to its organic and inorganic conditions of life." — (Origin of Species, p. 63-6.) B But Mr. Darwin also says : — " I do believe that Natural Selection... | |
 | Thomas George Gentry - Animal behavior - 1900 - 532 pages
...good, and silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunities occur, at the betterment of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life. So slow is her work that we see nothing of the changes in progress, and only when the hand of time... | |
 | THOMAS G GENTRY - 1900 - 566 pages
...good, and silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunities occur, at the betterment of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life. So slow is her work that we see nothing of the changes in progress, and only when the hand of time... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1902 - 472 pages
...stamp of far higher workmanship ? It may metaphorically be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, throughout the world, every variation,...conditions of life. We see nothing of these slow changes in Erogress, until the hand of time has marked the long ipse of ages, and then so imperfect is our view... | |
 | Dennis Hird - Evolution - 1903 - 256 pages
...throughout the world, the slightest variations ; rejecting those that are bad and adding up all that are good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and...to its organic and inorganic conditions of life." " When we see leaf-eating insects green and bark-feeders mottled gray, the alpine ptarmigan white in... | |
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