| Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1902 - 238 pages
...by birds, its existence depends on them ; and it may metaphorically be said to struggle with other (fruit-bearing plants, in tempting the birds to devour...convenience' sake the general term of Struggle for Existence. A struggle for existence inevitably follows from the high rate at which all organic beings tend to... | |
| Natural history - 1902 - 702 pages
...its numbers would quickly become so inordinately great that no country could support the product.1' " A struggle for existence inevitably follows from the...rate at which all organic beings tend to increase." It is true that in another passage we read that the term " struggle for existence " is used in a "... | |
| Dennis Hird - Evolution - 1903 - 260 pages
...by birds, its existence depends on them ; and it may metaphorically be said to struggle with other fruit-bearing plants in tempting the birds to devour...sake the general term of ' struggle for existence.' " A struggle for existence inevitably follows from the high rate at which all organic beings tend to... | |
| Thomas Hunt Morgan - Adaptation (Biology). - 1903 - 496 pages
...disseminated by birds, its existence depends on them, and it may metaphorically be said to struggle with other fruit-bearing plants, in tempting the birds to devour...other, I use for convenience' sake the general term ' Struggle for Existence.' " A number of writers have objected to the general and often vague way in... | |
| J. Rutgers, Johannes Rutgers - Malthusianism - 1908 - 320 pages
...unerlässlichen Lebensbedingungen, wobei dann die Solidarität allerdings auch eine mächtige Waffe bildet. *) A struggle for existence inevitably follows from the high rate at which all organio beings tend to increase. Every being which during its natural lifetime produces several eggs... | |
| William Sullivan Pattee - Ethics - 1909 - 304 pages
...disseminated by birds, its existence depends on them; and it may metaphorically be said to struggle with other fruit-bearing plants, in tempting the birds to devour...sake the general term of struggle for existence." " In both vegetable and animal life, there are found certain individual differences and variations,... | |
| Francis Rolt-Wheeler - Science - 1909 - 330 pages
...by birds, its existence depends on them ; and it may metaphorically be said to struggle with other fruit-bearing plants in tempting the birds to devour...convenience' sake the general term of Struggle for Existence. "A struggle for existence inevitably follows from the high rate at which all organic beings tend to... | |
| William Sullivan Pattee - Ethics - 1909 - 310 pages
...disseminated by birds, its existence depends on them; and it may metaphorically be said to struggle with other fruit-bearing plants, in tempting the birds to devour...several senses which pass into each other, I use for conveniencesake the general term of struggle for existence." 17 In both vegetable and animal life,... | |
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