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
| Charles Darwin - 1902 - 238 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... | |
| Dennis Hird - 1903 - 256 lehte
...Nature 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...Nature only for that of the being which she tends." " Under nature, the slightest differences of structure or constitution may well turn the nicely-balanced... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1903 - 544 lehte
...misunderstood, and apparently always will be. Referring to your book, I find such expressions as " Man selects only for his own good ; Nature only for that of the being which she tends." This, it seems, will always be misunderstood ; but if you had said " Man selects only for his own good... | |
| Jacob Gould Schurman - 1903 - 292 lehte
...; 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... | |
| John Lionel Tayler - 1904 - 366 lehte
...or even greater changes may be effected by natural selection, which, as Darwin well remarks, " acts on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional difference, on the whole machinery of life." The difficulty as to co-adaptation of parts by variation and natural selection appears to me, therefore,... | |
| John Lionel Tayler - 1904 - 376 lehte
...or even greater changes may be effected by natural selection, which, as Darwin well remarks, " acts on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional difference, on the whole machinery of life." The difficulty as to co-adaptation of parts by variation and natural selection appears to me, therefore,... | |
| William Lowe Walker - 1906 - 510 lehte
...order instead of chaos " (Danvinism, p. 9). and its offspring, acting to those ends, as Darwin said, " on every internal organ, on every shade • of constitutional difference, on the whole machinery of life," surely we behold the most intimate presence and working of Reason in Nature. Take as a further illustration,... | |
| Oliver Joseph Thatcher - 1907 - 494 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... | |
| Yogi Ramacharaka, William Walker Atkinson - 1907 - 328 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...Man selects only for his own good ; Nature only for the good of the being which she tends. Every selected character is fully exercised by her, as is implied... | |
| YOGI RAMACHARAKA - 1908
...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...Man selects only for his own good ; Nature only for the good of the being which she tends. Every selected character is fully exercised by her, as is implied... | |
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