...have, also, often personified the word Nature ; for I have found it difficult to avoid this ambiguity ; but I mean by nature only the aggregate action and product of many natural laws, — and by laws only the ascertained sequence of events." But while he thus clearly saw, and distinctly asserted, that...

...have, also, often personified the word Nature ; for I have found it difficult to avoid this ambiguity ; but I mean by nature only the aggregate action and product of many natural laws, — and by laws only the ascertained sequence of events." But while he thus clearly saw, and distinctly asserted, that...

...have, also, often personified the word Nature ; for I have found it difficult to avoid this ambiguity ; but I mean by nature only the aggregate action and product of many natural laws, — and by laws only the ascertained sequence of events. It has been shown from many facts that the largest amount...

...hare, also, often personified the word Nature ; for I have found it difficult to avoid this ambiguity ; but I mean by nature only the aggregate action and product of many natural laws, — and by laws only the ascertained sequence of events." But while he thus clearly saw, and distinctly asserted, that...

...sometimes speak of natural selection as an intelligent power; — in the same way as astronomers speak of the attraction of gravity as ruling the movements of the planets, or as agriculturists speak of man making domestic races by his power of selection. In the one case,...

...said that I speak of ' natural selection,' " he says,a "as an active power or deity, but who is he who objects to an author speaking of the attraction of gravity as ruling the movements of planets ? Every one knows what is meant by such metaphorical expressions and they are always necessary...

...elements ? . . . It has been said that I speak of natural selection as an active power or Deity ; but who objects to an author speaking of the attraction...meant and is implied by such metaphorical expressions, etc.'' 1 Darwin's first and fundamental mistake was to introduce the element of Structure or Form into...

...preference combines. It has been said that I speak of natural selection as an active power or Deity; but who objects to an author speaking of the attraction...of gravity as ruling the movements of the planets? Everyone knows what is meant and is implied by such metaphorical expressions; and they are almost necessary...

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...have, also, often personified the word Nature ; for I have found it difficult to avoid this ambiguity ; but I mean by nature only the aggregate action and product of many natural laws, — and by laws only the ascertained sequence of events." But while he thus clearly saw, and distinctly asserted, that...