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
| Ronald Cole-Turner - 1993 - 132 lehte
...improper extension of the metaphor) nature selects intentionally for progress. Darwin himself could write, "Man selects only for his own good; Nature only for that of the being which she tends" (1968 [1859], p. 132). If taken literally, the metaphor of "natural selection" is dangerously misleading.... | |
| Robert M. Torrance - 2023 - 396 lehte
...reveals the persistence of seemingly teleological and even anthropomorphic patterns in his thought. "Man selects only for his own good; Nature only for that of the being which she tends" (132), and Nature's productions "plainly bear the stamp of far higher workmanship. ... It may be said,"... | |
| Marcello Pera - 1994 - 272 lehte
...nothing for appearances, except in so far as they may be useful to any being. She can act on everv internal organ, on every shade of constitutional difference, on the whole machinery of life. . . . Can we wonder, then, that nature's productions should be far "truer" in character than man's... | |
| David Amigoni - 1995 - 228 lehte
...power of natural selection - 'Man can act only on external and visible characters: nature ... can act on ... the whole machinery of life. Man selects only...Nature only for that of the being which she tends' - might constitute a difference of kind rather than degree, as might the much greater stretches of... | |
| Michael P. Murphy, Luke A. J. O'Neill - 1997 - 212 lehte
...act only on external and visible characters: nature cares nothing for appearances . . . She can act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional difference, on the whole machinery of life . . . How fleeting are the wishes and efforts of man! How short his time! and consequendy how poor... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1996 - 382 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...which she tends. Every selected character is fully exercised by her; and the being is placed under well-suited conditions of life. Man keeps the natives... | |
| James R. Mensch - 1996 - 324 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...Nature only for that of the being which she tends" ("The Origin of the Species," Chap. 6, in The Origin of the Species and the Descent of Man, p. 65).... | |
| P. Theerman, Karen Hunger Parshall - 1997 - 336 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...good; Nature only for that of the being which she tends."31 Theologians from very ancient times have had to conjure with the paradox of a morally good... | |
| Carolyn Dever - 1998 - 255 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...whole machinery of life. Man selects only for his good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends. Every selected character is fully exercised... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1998 - 424 lehte
...discarding others. But 'man can act only on external and visible characters', whereas nature 'can act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional difference, on the whole machinery of life' (65); the superior powers of natural selection are almost inestimable: It may be said that natural... | |
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