| Alexander Wilford Hall - 1880 - Страниц: 544
...hence a contradiction in terms, Mr. Darwin says: — "As natural selection works solely for and by the good of each being all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection." — Origin of Species, p. 428. Professor Huxley entertains the same idea of evolution... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1883 - Страниц: 494
...cataclysm has desolated the whole world. Hence we may look with some confidence to a secure future of great length. And as natural selection works solely by and...towards perfection. It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with Ij!... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1884 - Страниц: 396
...cataclysm has desolated the whole world. Hence we may look with some confidence to a secure future of great length. And as natural selection works solely by and...corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection. THE GRANDEUR OF THIS VIEW OP LIFE. _ It is interesting to contemplate a tangled... | |
| Robert Patterson - 1885 - Страниц: 320
...all animals and plants are descended from some one prototype. But analogy may be a deceitful guide And as natural selection works solely by and for the...corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection. . . . Thus from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object... | |
| Richard Heber Newton - 1886 - Страниц: 360
...revealing this goal of our costly progress. Mr. Darwin declares, as he closes his " Origin of Species : " " As natural selection works solely by and for the good...endowments will tend to progress towards perfection." It follows that evil must gradually disappear from human life, as imperfections grow out towards perfection,... | |
| George Thomas Bettany - 1887 - Страниц: 228
...the progenitor of innumerable extinct and living descendants, was created. . . . We may look forward with some confidence to a secure future of equally...endowments will tend to progress towards perfection." The concluding sentence of the " Origin of Species" has become one of our classical quotations. " There... | |
| 1888 - Страниц: 630
...yet they are all ' the lineal descendants of those which lived before the Silurian epoch ; and one may feel certain that the ordinary succession by generation...endowments will tend to progress towards perfection.' After all, this book is but an abstract : — it is the pilot balloon to a greater machine. Probably... | |
| 1888 - Страниц: 898
...suffering which might have been avoided. And here Darwinism gives us a hint, if it is but a hint : " Natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being." f The arrangement of the world is " generally beneficent," I and " tends to progress toward perfection."... | |
| Januarius De Concilio - 1889 - Страниц: 276
...system is absolutely out of question." George. — " 'A natural selection,' says Darwin, 'works solely for the good of each being; all corporeal and mental...endowments will tend to progress towards perfection' ('Origin of the Species,' page 428). And again: 'The continued production of new forms, which implies... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1896 - Страниц: 360
...cataclysm has desolated the whole world. Hence we may look with some confidence to a secure future of great length. And as natural selection works solely by and...towards perfection. - It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various... | |
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