 | Ilse Nina Bulhof - 1992 - Страниц: 224
...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... | |
 | Matt Cartmill - 1996 - Страниц: 352
...advancement of the organisation of the greater number of living beings throughout the world."59 Since "natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being," Darwin assured his readers, "all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection."60... | |
 | Joseph Carroll - 1995 - Страниц: 1096
...allowance for any such design. For instance, in the final paragraphs of the Origin, Darwin remarks that "as natural selection works solely by and for the...corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection."27 It is possible to explain away such remarks by defining "perfection" merely as... | |
 | John Gowdy - 1994 - Страниц: 268
...struggle for survival through competitive selection. As Darwin (1872, p. 669) put it, in a famous passage, "as natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal 177 and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection". In the economic world, according... | |
 | Robert A. Nisbet - Страниц: 392
...succession by generation has never once been broken, and that no cataclysm has desolated the 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... | |
 | Laura Dassow Walls - 1995 - Страниц: 318
...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 equally inappreciable length. (489) Thoreau launches his thoughts after the milkweed seed that has sailed aloft and is "steering... | |
 | Leo Marx, Bruce Mazlish - 1996 - Страниц: 252
...progress. In an uncharacteristic statement, Darwin himself gave support to this view when he said, "And as natural selection works solely by and for...corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection."12 In any event, evolutionary theory joined positivism in seeming to make an invincible... | |
 | Howard L. Kaye - Страниц: 220
...theology a reassuring faith in progress as a solution to the problem of theodicy raised by his work: "as natural selection works solely by and for the...corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection" (1859, p. 489). Yet in the years after 1859, Darwin, in his biological theories,... | |
 | Owen Goldin, Patricia Kilroe - 1997 - Страниц: 276
...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... | |
 | Antony Flew - Страниц: 180
...fundamental objection conies out most harshly when we notice why we cannot echo Darwin's conclusion: 'Hence we may look with some confidence to a secure future of great length.' Armageddon apart, Quinton was stating the simple truth when he said: '[Man] has certainly... | |
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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. 
