I may be allowed to personify the natural preservation or survival of the fittest, cares nothing for appearances, except in so far as they are useful to any being. She can act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional difference, on the... The Darwinian Theory of the Transmutation of Species - Page 136by Robert Mackenzie Beverley - 1867 - 386 lehteFull view - About this book
| George Thomas Bettany, John Parker Anderson - 1887 - 224 lehte
...nature cares nothing for appearances, except in so far as they may be useful to any being. She can act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional...for his own good; nature only for that of the being she tends^ Every selected character is fully exercised by her ; and the being is placed under well-suited... | |
| Jacob Gould Schurman - 1887 - 292 lehte
...man ; in the other they are such as are serviceable to the individual in its competition with rivals. "Man selects only for his own good ; nature only for that of the being which she tends." But the main point is that, just as domestic varieties arise from the selective breeding practised... | |
| Edward Clodd - 1888 - 326 lehte
...fittest, cares nothing for appearances, except in so far as they are useful to any being. She can act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional...which she tends. Every selected character is fully exercised by her, as is implied by the fact of their selection Man keeps the natives of many climates... | |
| Brooklyn Ethical Association - 1889 - 424 lehte
...Nature cares nothing for appearances except in so far as they may be useful to any being. She can act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional difference, on the whole machinery of life. ... It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing throughout the world every... | |
| James Platt - 1890 - 220 lehte
...preservation or survival of the fittest ; and contrasts man's actions and motives with those of Nature's. " Man selects only for his own good ; Nature only for...which she tends. Every selected character is fully exercised by her, as is implied by the fact of their selection. Man keeps the natives of many climates... | |
| William Ward McLane - 1892 - 280 lehte
...preservation of such variations as arise and are beneficial to the being under its conditions of life." 1 " Man selects only for his own good, Nature only for that of the being which she tends." " Sexual selection acts in a less rigorous manner than natural selection." Under the action of sexual... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1896 - 406 lehte
...fittest, cares nothing for appearances, except in so far as they are useful to any being. She can act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional...which she tends. Every selected character is fully exercised by her, as is implied by the fact of their selection. Man keeps the natives of many climates... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1896 - 408 lehte
...fittest, cares nothing for appearances, except in so far as they are useful to any being. She can act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional...which she tends. Every selected character is fully exercised by her, as is implied by the fact of their selection. Man keeps the natives of many climates... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 486 lehte
...fittest, cares nothing for appearances, except in so far as they are useful to any being. She can act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional...which she tends. Every selected character is fully exercised by her, as is implied by the fact of their selection. Man keeps the natives of many climates... | |
| Gwendolen Foulke Andrews - 1897 - 188 lehte
...organisms that Darwin believed it to be. We must remember that he said, "Natural Selection can act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional difference, on the whole machinery of life." His line of argument becomes perforce artificial whereever he attempts to decide the usefulness of... | |
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