Nature Versus Natural Selection: An Essay on Organic EvolutionLondon, 1895 - 591 pages |
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Nature Versus Natural Selection: An Essay on Organic Evolution Charles Clement Coe No preview available - 2015 |
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action of Natural adapted animals argument Artificial Selection assertion assume attack become believe birds black rat breed brown rat burrow caterpillar cause chance co-operation colour Colours of Animals competition connection correlated variation Darwin destruction difficulty dogs effect eggs enemies experience extermination external conditions extinction fact favourable variations female fertile fittest geometrical ratio germ plasm habits hare herd illustration increase individuals influence inherited insects instinct intelligence isolation kind Kropotkin larvæ less live male means of Natural modification Natural Selection Naturalist necessarily nest neuter observed obvious occur offspring Origin of Species phenomena plants preservation prey Prince Kropotkin principle produced protection race reason resemblance result Romanes sexual reproduction Sexual Selection similar variants sometimes stability of species structure struggle for existence supposed survival take place theory of Natural tion transmutation of species varieties Wallace Weismann white-tailed eagle wild young
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Page 38 - Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind ; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind...
Page 496 - I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them...
Page 314 - So careful of the type' ? but no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries, 'A thousand types are gone: I care for nothing, all shall go.
Page 23 - ... offspring. The offspring also will thus have a better chance of surviving; for of the many individuals of any species which are periodically born, but a small number can survive. I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection, in order to mark its relation to man's power of selection. But the expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer, of the Survival of the Fittest, is more accurate and is sometimes equally convenient.
Page 471 - We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, - if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass; the same hips and haws on the autumn's hedgerows; the same redbreasts that we used to call "God's birds," because they did no harm to the precious crops.
Page 535 - God ! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea...
Page 132 - Say,' there be : Yet nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean: so, o'er that art Which, you say, adds to nature, is an art That nature makes.
Page 524 - I go to prove my soul! I see my way as birds their trackless way. I shall arrive ! what time, what circuit first, I ask not: but unless God send his hail Or blinding fireballs, sleet or stifling snow, In some time, his good time, I shall arrive: He guides me and the bird. In his good time!
Page 43 - Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
Page 451 - Happy is he who lives to understand Not human nature only, but explores All natures, to the end that he may find The law that governs each : and where begins The union, the partition where, that makes Kind and degree among all visible beings ; The constitutions, powers, and faculties...