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
| Francis Rolt-Wheeler - 1909 - 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...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 - 1909 - 584 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... | |
| Joseph Lane Hancock - 1911 - 506 lehte
...external and visible characters. Nature cares nothing for appearances, except in so far as they act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional...nature only for that of the being which she tends. Man keeps the natives of many climates in the same country — he feeds the long and short beaked pigeon... | |
| Birger Palm - 1911 - 200 lehte
...inheritance, any selected variety will tend to propagate its new form (Origin of Species, Introd.). Man selects only for his own good; Nature only for...which she tends. Every selected character is fully exercised by her (ib., p. 76). The baron got the worst of some disputed question (Nickleby). The compound... | |
| Dukinfield Henry Scott - 1911 - 264 lehte
...fine wool in sheep, size and flavour in fruit, or beauty of colour in flowers. "Man," said Darwin, "selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends" (ibid., p. 65). "If it profit a plant to have its seeds more and more widely disseminated by the wind,... | |
| Alfred Russel Wallace, Sir James Marchant - 1916 - 530 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;... | |
| Alfred Russel Wallace, Sir James Marchant - 1916 - 564 lehte
...is 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;... | |
| Alfred Russel Wallace, Sir James Marchant - 1916 - 352 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 hut own good... | |
| 1921 - 560 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... | |
| Sir William Cecil Dampier Dampier, Margaret Dampier Dampier - 1924 - 312 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...Nature only for that of the being which she tends.... Although natural selection can act only through and for the good of each being, yet characters and... | |
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