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
| Jane Maienschein, Michael Ruse - 1999 - 348 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. ... It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every... | |
| Gillian Beer - 2000 - 316 lehte
...'artificial selection'. Artificial selection is a selfish process; natural selection a selfless one: 'Man selects only for his own good; Nature only for that of the being which she tends.'ls Darwin's imaging of selflessness is ethical: the sustaining action of mother or nurse; Dennett's... | |
| Lucas Bergkamp - 2001 - 744 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." Darwin C. The Origin of Species. By... | |
| Robert Faggen - 1997 - 380 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.27 Darwin justifies the imperceptibly slow process of development by natural selection with profoundly... | |
| Robert J. Richards - 2002 - 626 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. ... It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every... | |
| John Waller - 2004 - 324 lehte
...comfortable and comforting idea of progress in nature. Elsewhere, however, he made his meaning clearer: 'Man selects only for his own good; Nature only for that of the being she tends.' And towards the end of the book: 'As natural selection works solely by and for the good... | |
| William C. Stokoe, David F. Armstrong, Michael A. Karchmer - 2002 - 308 lehte
...of Darwinian theory, after all Darwin ([1859] 1991) himself stated that natural selection "can act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional difference, on the machinery of life" ([1859] 1991, 61). This would intuitively seem to be a strong base on which Chomsky... | |
| James R. Mensch - 2003 - 240 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" (Darwin 1967b, 65). The reference of "the being which she tends" and its benefit seems at first to... | |
| Sir William Cecil Dampier Dampier, Margaret Dampier - 2003 - 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 It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, throughout the world, every... | |
| Günter Figal, Damir Barbariã - 2003 - 378 lehte
...so Darwin, sei die Natur eben eine unvergleichlich bessere Züchterin als der Mensch: »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.«21 Die Zuchtwahl der Natur realisiert damit eine ihr eigene, dem Menschen nur retrospektiv,... | |
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