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" 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 of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection. "
On the Origin of Species: By Means of Natural Selection Or the Preservation ... - Стр. 308
авторы: Charles Darwin - 2007 - Страниц: 328
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A Bibliography of the Writings of W.H. Hudson

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."—...
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The New Age of Faith

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....
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Theory of History, Том 93

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...
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Biology and the Foundations of Ethics

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...
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Herbert Spencer: Critical Assessments, Том 2

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...
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Evolution and Human Behavior: Darwinian Perspectives on Human Nature

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...
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Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos

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....
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Exercises in Constructive Imagination

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...
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The Good Life: Alternatives in Ethics

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...
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Eschatology

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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