| George Francis Wilson - 1922 - Страниц: 90
...WHICH WILL ULTIMATELY PREVAIL. . . HENCE WE MAY LOOK WITH SOME CONFIDENCE TO A SECURE FUTURE OF GREAT LENGTH. AND AS NATURAL SELECTION WORKS SOLELY BY AND FOR THE GOOD OP EACH BEING, ALL CORPOREAL AND MENTAL ENDOWMENTS •TILL TEND To PROGRESS TOWARDS PERFECTION."—... | |
| John Langdon-Davies - 1925 - Страниц: 262
...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...endowments will tend to progress towards perfection." Now let us compare these affirmations of optimism with typical statements by contemporary scientists.... | |
| Frederick John Teggart - 1925 - Страниц: 264
...in so far, higher in the scale" ;18 further, in concluding the Origin of Species, he remarked that "as natural selection works solely by and for the...corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection."10 The form in which the problem of 'evolution' presented itself to Darwin was how... | |
| Jane Maienschein, Michael Ruse - 1999 - Страниц: 348
...morally progressive state that the history of evolution exemplifies and, in the long run, produces, for "as natural selection works solely by and for the...corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection" (Darwin 1859, p. 489). The moral character of nature's actions in regard to her... | |
| John Offer - 2000 - Страниц: 696
...the penultimate paragraph of On the Origin of Species (1859:489), the last sentence of which reads: "And as natural selection works solely by and for...endowments will tend to progress towards perfection." Here, it is important to realize, Darwin is using the language employed by the naturalists of his day... | |
| John Cartwright - 2000 - Страниц: 406
...teleology and given a naturalistic explanation of the origin of species, at the end of Origin he says: And as natural selection works solely by and for the...endowments will tend to progress towards perfection. (Darwin, 1859, p. 459) But progress to large brains was never inevitable. Natural selection is not... | |
| Roger Lewin - 1999 - Страниц: 276
...many places, doesn't he? "That's right," said Steve. "The most famous one comes from near the end: 'And as natural selection works solely by and for...endowments will tend to progress towards perfection.' But historians make a mistake when they try to find utter consistency in the world of great thinkers.... | |
| Ermanno Bencivenga - 2001 - Страниц: 226
...are those, of course, who have deep confidence in this process. They would agree with Darwin that, "as natural selection works solely by and for the...endowments will tend to progress towards perfection" (The Origin of Species 395), and they are only too eager to see a similar perfection extend to the... | |
| Burton F. Porter - 2001 - Страниц: 336
...concluded The Origin of Species by saying "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." However, since the nineteenth century when these confident words were penned, we... | |
| Hans Schwarz - 2000 - Страниц: 452
...that, in the concluston at least, he could not refrain from pointing toward the future by writing: "And as natural selection works solely by and for...corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection." Two words are signifscant in this statement: "progress" and "perfection." Indeed,... | |
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