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" 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 136
by Robert Mackenzie Beverley - 1867 - 386 lehte
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Biology and the Foundations of Ethics

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...
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Darwin's Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and ...

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...
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Liability and Environment: Private and Public Law Aspects of Civil Liability ...

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...
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Robert Frost and the Challenge of Darwin

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...
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The Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe

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...
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Fabulous Science: Fact and Fiction in the History of Scientific Discovery

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...
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The Study of Signed Languages: Essays in Honor of William C. Stokoe

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...
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Ethics and Selfhood: Alterity and the Phenomenology of Obligation

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...
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Cosmology, Atomic Theory, Evolution: Classic Readings in the Literature of ...

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...
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Humanismus: Humanismus, 2. köide;2003. köide

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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