| History - 1872 - 802 pages
...of man have acquired them by natural selection, as the lower animals have done ; that is to say, " when two tribes of primeval man living in the same country came into competition, if the one tribe included (other circumstances being equal) a greater number of courageous, sympathetic,... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1871 - 432 pages
...progenitors of man jin a similar manner, namely, through natural selection, j aided by inherited habit. When two tribes of primeval man, living in the same country, came into competition, if the one tribe included (other circumstances being equal) a greater number of courageous, sympathetic,... | |
| Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1871 - 554 pages
...progenitors of man in a similar manner, namely, through natural selection, aided by inherited habit. When two tribes of primeval man, living in the same country, came into competition, if the one tribe included (other circumstances being equal) a greater number of courageous, sympathetic,... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1872 - 814 pages
...of man have acquired them by natural selection, as the lower animals have done ; that is to say, " when two tribes of primeval man living in the same country came into competition, if the one tribe included (other circumstances being equal) a greater number of courageous, sympathetic,... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1872 - 732 pages
...of man have acquired them by natural selection, as the lower animals have done ; that is to say, " when two tribes of primeval man living in the same country came into competition, if the one tribe included (other circumstances being equal) a greater number of courageous, sympathetic,... | |
| Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1898 - 712 pages
...progenitors of man in a similar manner, namely, through natural selection, aided by inherited habit. When two tribes of primeval man, living in the same country, came into competition, if (other cireumstances being equal) the one tribe included a great number of courageous, sympathetic and faithful... | |
| Thomas George Gentry - Animal behavior - 1900 - 532 pages
...habit. In the never-ceasing wars of savages, fidelity and courage are all-important, and certainly when two tribes of primeval man, living in the same country, came into competition, the one that contained the greatest number of courageous, sympathetic and faithful members, who were... | |
| THOMAS G GENTRY - 1900 - 566 pages
...habit. In the never-ceasing wars of savages, fidelity and courage are all-important, and certainly when two tribes of primeval man, living in the same country, came into competition, the one that contained the greatest number of courageous, sympathetic and faithful members, who were... | |
| Free Religious Association (Boston, Mass.). Meeting - Religion - 1907 - 848 pages
...and the elements that have gone into its constitution. Let me quote Darwin again. When, he says, " two tribes of primeval man, living in the same country,...were always ready to warn each other of danger, to act and defend each other, this tribe would succeed better and conquer the other." Such a tribe would... | |
| Henry Louis Mencken - 1908 - 350 pages
...side, and if, in one of them, the unfit were permitted to perish, while in the other there were many " courageous, sympathetic and faithful members, who were always ready to warn each other of danger, and to aid and defend one another " — that in such a case, the latter tribe would make the most progress,... | |
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