 | 1902 - 642 pages
...selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, throughout the world, the slightest variations ; rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that...and inorganic conditions of life. We see nothing of those slow changes in progress until the hand of time has marked the lapse of ages, and then so imperfect... | |
 | James Arthur Ambler - Economics - 1809 - 616 pages
...all th.it are good, silently and insensibly working, .whenever and jrlierever^opjgorJtUnity sffSfSf» at the "improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life. It may act en characters which we are apt to consider of trifling importance, and its accumulation... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1861 - 716 pages
...every variation, even the sfightest ; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and...each organic being in relation to its organic and morganic conditions of life. We see nothing of these slow changes in progress until the hand of time... | |
 | Criticism - 1861 - 1148 pages
...every variation, even the slightest ; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good ; silently and insensibly working, whenever and...relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life."f What then is the Creator birt an Emersonian Fate : " Let us build altars," chants the high... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1316 pages
...insensibly working, wherever and whenever opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being. We see nothing of these slow changes in progress, until the hand of time has marked the long lapse of ages ; and then so imperfect is our view into long past geological ages, that we only... | |
 | 1860 - 656 pages
...every variation, even the slightest ; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good ; silently and insensibly working, whenever and...in progress, until the hand of time has marked the long lapse of ages, and then so imperfect is our view into long past geological ages, that we only... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1861 - 716 pages
...every variation, even the slightest ; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good ; silently and insensibly working, whenever and...of these slow changes in progress until the hand of tune has marked the long lapse of ages, and then so imperfect is our view into long past geological... | |
 | 1861 - 824 pages
...every variation, even the slightest, rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good ; silently and insensibly working, whenever and...wherever opportunity offers, at the improvement of every organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life. We see nothing of... | |
 | Sanderson Robins - Philosophy - 1862 - 248 pages
...from a rudimentary into a more perfect structure. It does not remove the difficulty to be told that "we see nothing of these slow changes in progress, until the hand of time has marked the long lapse of ages ; and then so imperfect is our view into long-past geological time, that we only... | |
 | Sanderson Robins - Apologetics - 1862 - 240 pages
...from a rudimentary into a more perfect structure. It does not remove the difficulty to be told that " we see nothing of these slow changes in progress, until the hand of time has marked the long lapse of ages ; and then so imperfect is our view into long-past geological time, that we only... | |
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It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever... 
