 | Liberty Hyde Bailey - Country life - 1915 - 184 pages
...existence." "I use this term," he said, "in a large and metaphorical sense, including dependence of one being on another, and including (which is more important)...of the individual, but success in leaving progeny." The dependence of one being on another, success in leaving progeny, — how accurate and how far-seeing... | |
 | George William Nasmyth - Evolution - 1916 - 458 pages
...should premise that I use this term in a large and metaphorical sense, including dependence of one being on another, and including (which is more important)...the life of the individual, but success in leaving progeny.2 He then proceeds to illustrate the term in words which leave no doubt that it includes as... | |
 | James Augustin Brown Scherer - Cotton growing - 1916 - 474 pages
...term in a large and metaphorical sense, including dependence of one being on another, and including not only the life of the individual, but success in leaving progeny." 7 The social and political greed of men has led to the abortive seizure of the half-truth that suited... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - Zoology - 1917 - 504 pages
...struggle for existence " "in a large and metaphorical sense, including the dependence of one being on another, and including (which is more important)...of the individual, but success in leaving progeny." He also acknowledged the importance of mutual aid, sociability, and sympathy among animals, and clearly... | |
 | William Martin Smallwood - 1918 - 342 pages
...premise that I use this term in a larger and metamorphical sense, including dependence of one being on another, and including (which is more important)...success in leaving progeny. Two canine animals, in time of dearth, may be truly said to struggle with each other which shall get food and live. But a... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1918 - 976 pages
...Darwin says : " I use this term in a large and metaphorical sense, including dependence of one being on another, and including (which is more important)...of the individual, but success in leaving progeny." This is, indeed, far from the present-day scientific philosophy so passionately invoked by the German... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - Biological Evolution - 1920 - 372 pages
...Darwin said, was to be used " in a large and metaphorical sense, including dependence of one being on another, and including (which is more important)...of the individual, but success in leaving progeny " (Origin of Species, p. 50). This does not coincide with the view of some naturalists that the struggle... | |
 | Hermann Reinheimer - Biology - 1920 - 318 pages
...term (says Darwin in the Origin) in a large and metaphorical sense including dependence of one being on another, and including (which is more important)...of the individual, but success in leaving progeny. The mistletoe is dependent on the apple and a few other trees, but can only in a far-fetched sense... | |
 | Lucius Moody Bristol - Adaptation (Biology). - 1921 - 382 pages
...sense, as Darwin takes pains to explain, and includes " dependence of one being on another, and . . . not only the life of the individual, but success in leaving progeny." 4 This doctrine is that of " Malthus applied with manifold force to the whole animal and vegetable... | |
 | James Harvey Robinson - Europe - 1926 - 680 pages
...careful to say, "I use this term in a large and metaphorical sense including dependence of one being upon another, and including (which is more important) not only the life of the individual but the success in leaving progeny." Those unfamiliar with animals and plants often get the idea that by... | |
| |
I should premise that I use this term in a large and metaphorical sense, including dependence of one being on another, and including (which is more important) not only the life of the individual, but success in leaving progeny. 
