| Charles Bray - 1883 - 352 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...to its organic and inorganic conditions of life." He also says, " The term general good may be defined as the means by which the greatest possible number... | |
| Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1884 - 494 pages
...for the females. He does not rigidly destroy all inferior animals, but protects during each vary ing season, as far as lies in his power, all his productions....to' its organic and inorganic conditions of life. We seo nothing of these Blow changes in progress, until the hand of time has marked the lapse of ages,... | |
| Charles Kingsley - 1884 - 320 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...to its organic and inorganic conditions of life,' — if this, I say, were proved to be true, ought God's care and God's providence to seem less or more... | |
| William J. Cassidy - Creation - 1887 - 392 pages
...every variation, even the slightest, rejecting all that 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 see... | |
| Jacob Gould Schurman - Ethics - 1887 - 292 pages
...selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, the slightest variations; rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that are good." And since natural selection is the name of an event that follows from physical causes, the reader gets... | |
| Constance E. Plumptre - Causation - 1888 - 210 pages
...Selection is daily and hourly scrutinising throughout the world the slightest variations, rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that...relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life" ; our theory of ethics must be modified accordingly. If (what, after all, has passed into a commonplace)... | |
| Brooklyn Ethical Association - Evolution - 1889 - 424 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...to its organic and inorganic conditions of life." In the struggle for existence, always going on, it is evident that individuals having the least advantage... | |
| Thomas Spencer Baynes - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 924 pages
...selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, the slightest variations, rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that...relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life. It may operate on characters which we are apt to consider of very trifling importance, and its accumulation... | |
| Daniel Rees - Ethics - 1892 - 80 pages
...selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, throughout the world, the slightest variations; rejecting those that are bad , preserving and adding up all...relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life."1) From the nature of the case, natural selection works only for the good of the organism ; it... | |
| Arthur Bower Griffiths - 1892 - 512 pages
...selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, throughout the world, the slightest variations ; rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that...wherever opportunity offers, at the improvement of cach organic hcing in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life. We see nothing of these... | |
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