 | Paul Haffner - 2001 - Страниц: 304
...invisible work of natural selection. '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.'54 Darwin's view of man seems materialist: 'Why is thought, being a secretion of... | |
 | Robert Faggen - 1997 - Страниц: 380
...control and prediction. In addition to being altruistic, natural selection will produce perfection: "And as natural selection works solely by and for...corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection."28 But perfection, here, is only a tendency and at best a fulfillment of a certain... | |
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...catastrophes, such as extinctions, were necessary steps, making room for new and better life forms. As "natural selection works solely by and for the...corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress to- _ wards perfection," Darwin wrote. "Thus from the war of nature, from IJ7 famine and death, the... | |
 | Robert Finch, John Elder - 2002 - Страниц: 1160
...cataclysm has desolated the whole world. Hence we may look with some confidence to a secure future of great k ^ a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various... | |
 | John Waller - 2004 - Страниц: 324
...only for his own good; Nature only for that of the being she tends.' And towards the end of the book: 'As natural selection works solely by and for the...endowments will tend to progress towards perfection.' It is arguable that Darwin included these passages as a prudent means of de-fanging the harsh reality he... | |
 | William E. Phipps - 2002 - Страниц: 234
...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...and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection.51 "Progress towards perfection" does not follow from Darwin's theory; it appears to be... | |
 | Robert J. Richards - 2002 - Страниц: 626
...morally progressive state that the history of evolution exemplified and, ultimately, produced. For "as natural selection works solely by and for the...corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection."54 The moral character of nature's actions in regard to her own creations is whispered,... | |
 | Gregory Moore - 2002 - Страниц: 240
...existence. In the closing pages of The Origin of Species, he even declares that natural selection 'works by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection'.14 But Darwin stopped short of a law of progressive development. He repeatedly criticised... | |
 | Hans Schwarz - 2002 - Страниц: 270
...conditions. Darwin's conclusions in terms of the nature of species were quite optimistic. Since he thought "natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being," he could claim that "all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection.... | |
 | Hans Ulrich Seeber - 2003 - Страниц: 316
...spekulativen Schlußbetrachtung im Hinblick auf Ziel und Zweck der Evolution vorsichtigem Optimismus: "Hence we may look with some confidence to a secure...and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfetion."11 Man sieht: Darwin lieferte nur das abstrakte Vorstellungsmodell, das Lytton mit einem... | |
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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. 
