| William E. Phipps - 2002 - Страниц: 234
...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... | |
| 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.... | |
| Robert Finch, John Elder - 2002 - Страниц: 1160
...succession by generation has never once been broken, and that no cataclysm has desolated the whole world. great length. And as natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal... | |
| James A. Arieti, Patrick A. Wilson - 2003 - Страниц: 356
...will then truly give what may be called the plan of creation."14 The plan, he adds, is benevolent: "And as natural selection works solely by and for...corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection."15 In a way, this plan is better than the one described in Genesis. There God began... | |
| Barbara Ann Suess - 2003 - Страниц: 218
...(1859), in fact, culminates on a ideological note, comforting its readers with the consolation that, "as natural selection works solely by and for the...corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection" (489; 428). 8 Gertrude Himmelfarb points out that Huxley later applauded the teleological... | |
| Peter J. Bowler - 2003 - Страниц: 485
...offset the negative image of a theory based on struggle and suffering, he suggests in the Origin that "as natural selection works solely by and for the...being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend toward perfection" (488-89). Without implying a single hierarchy of evolution leading to humankind,... | |
| Ignatius Donnelly - 2003 - Страниц: 340
...I.iv.82. 18. Though Darwin, at the end of the first edition of The Origin of Species (1859), did note that "as natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal endowments will tend to progress towards perfection" (chap. 14), he nowhere preached the "gospel" Gabriel... | |
| William M. Dugger, Howard J. Sherman - 2003 - Страниц: 288
...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... | |
| Doug Cocks - 2003 - Страниц: 356
...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... | |
| Timothy Shanahan - 2004 - Страниц: 354
...characterizing living things. On this all evolutionists agree. Darwin maintained again and again that "natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being" (Darwin 1859, p. 489; 1959, p. 758). But there are many "beings" involved in the evolutionary process.... | |
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