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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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Darwin and the Nature of Species

David N. Stamos - 2012 - 296 lehte
...characters," whereas natural selection acts "on every shade of constitutional difference" (83). Furthermore, "Man selects only for his own good; Nature only for that of the being which she tends." Finally, the wishes and efforts of man are "fleeting," his time is "short," so that "how poor will...
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Perspectives on Argumentation: Essays in Honor of Wayne Brockriede

Robert Trapp, Janice E. Schuetz - 2006 - 360 lehte
...(Darwin, 1967). While most of Darwin's ensuing contrasts stress nature's superior sweep, "She can act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional difference, on the whole machinery of life" and ruthlessness. Darwin believes that humanity "does not rigidly destroy all inferior animals, ..."...
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On the Origin of Species: By Means of Natural Selection Or the Preservation ...

Charles Darwin - 2007 - 329 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...being which she tends. Every selected character is folly exercised by her; and the being is placed under well-suited conditions of life. Man keeps die...
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Victorian Animal Dreams: Representations of Animals in Victorian Literature ...

Deborah Denenholz Morse, Martin A. Danahay - 2007 - 342 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" (Darwin, Origin of Species, p. 146). Unlike Tennyson's personification of a dangerously ruthless force...
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Natural Selection: The Global Struggle for Existence

Charles Darwin - 2008 - 166 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...
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Evolution: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin 1860–1870

Frederick Burkhardt, Alison M. Pearn, Samantha Evans - 2008
...it is misunderstood & 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;...
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Jonathan Onslow, Pioneer: A History of His Experiences and Investigations ...

18?? - 576 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...for his own good, Nature only for that of the being for which she tends. ... It may metaphorically be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising...
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Annals & Magazine of Natural History

1860 - 562 lehte
...to any being. She can act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional difference, ou the whole machinery of life. Man selects only for...own good , Nature only for that of the being which the tends. Every selected Ann. if Mag. N. Hist. Ser.3. Vol. v. 10character is fully exercised by her...
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Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine

William F. Bynum, Roy Porter - 1993 - 810 lehte
...mould and shape the forms of actually existing species. Through death, Darwin held, nature can act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional difference, on the whole machinery of life. ... It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, throughout the world, every...
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