| John Bagnell Bury - 1920 - Страниц: 404
...succession by generation has never once been broken, and that no cataclysm has_ desolated the whole world. Hence we may look with some confidence to a secure...for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental environments will tend to progress towards perfection. Here the evolutionist struck the note of optimism.... | |
| John Bagnell Bury - 1920 - Страниц: 404
...succession by generation has never once been broken, and that no cataclysm has desolated the whole world. Hence we may look with some confidence to a secure...for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental environments will tend to progress towards perfection. Here the evolutionist struck the note of optimism.... | |
| George Francis Wilson - 1922 - Страниц: 90
...FORETELL THAT IT WILL BE THE COMMON AND WIDELYSPREAD SPECIES . . . 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... | |
| 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... | |
| John Langdon-Davies - 1925 - Страниц: 262
...succession by generation has never once been broken, and that no 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 for the good of each being, all corporeal... | |
| Julian Huxley - 1923 - Страниц: 336
..."Usus et impigrae simul experientia mentis Paulatim docuit pedetemtim progredientes." — LUCRETIUS. "As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental environments will tend to progress towards perfection." — CHARLES DARWIN. "Social progress means... | |
| Ernst Mayr - 1988 - Страниц: 582
...statement in the Origin sounds more teleological than one on the next to last page of this work (p. 489): "And as natural selection works solely by and for...corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection." But again there is no intimation of a teleological mechanism, for as Darwin emphasizes... | |
| Samuel Anthony Barnett - 1988 - Страниц: 410
...change, as we know, is sometimes regarded as commendable. Darwin, at the end of the Origin, wrote: 'as natural selection works solely by and for the...being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend toward perfection.'3 Correspondingly, our idea of social progress usually reflects optimism about the... | |
| Daniel Pick - 1989 - Страниц: 292
...tone as well as the subject had shifted in other ways. In The Origin he had declared it possible to 'look with some confidence to a secure future of equally inappreciable length'; he had insisted that 'natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal... | |
| Robert Finch, John Elder - 1990 - Страниц: 930
...succession by generation has never once been broken, and that no 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 for the good of each being, all corporeal... | |
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