...appalled by the carnage implicit in natural selection, he offered sympathetic words of consolation. When we reflect on this struggle, we may console ourselves...full belief, that the war of nature is not incessant, tha1 no fear is felt, that death is generally prompt, and that the vigorous, the healthy, and the happy...

...season of the year, during each generation or at intervals, has to struggle for life, and to suffer great destruction. When we reflect on this struggle,...vigorous, the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply. CHAPTER IV NATURAL SELECTION Natural Selection — its power compared with man's selection — its...

...season of the year, during each generation or at intervals, has to struggle for life and to suffer great destruction. When we reflect on this struggle,...vigorous, the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply. SOUCE: Chapter 3 in The Origin of Species (1859) and The Descent of Man (18j1) (New York: Modern Library,...

...struggle for life, and to suffer great destruction.'13 But there is consolation offered by gentle Darwin - 'When we reflect on this struggle, we may console...the healthy and the happy survive and multiply.' The literature on Darwin and his impact is almost limitless. The truth remains that the majority of Victorian...

...for him. Add to this his playing down of the coldness and horror of natural selection in the wild: "that the war of nature is not incessant, that no...vigorous, the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply" (79). Contrast this with what he wrote in one of his letters to Asa Gray (May 22, 1860): "There seems...

...rather abrupt and incongruous conclusion to the otherwise bleak chapter on the "Stroggle tor Existence": "When we reflect on this struggle, we may console...vigorous, the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply" Ip. 791. Darwin, characteristically, inverts the logic while leaving the argument intact. Parsimony...

...to play down the shivering coldness and utter horror of natural selection in the wild, Darwin wrote "When we reflect on this struggle, we may console...vigorous, the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply" (79). Elsewhere he wrote of "the beautiful and harmonious diversity of nature" (169). Comforting words...

...shows how this somber fact reaffirms the conventional view of nature as ultimately kind and benevolent. "When we reflect on this struggle, we may console...vigorous, the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply (Darwin, 1967, p. 79). In the fourth chapter, "Natural Selection," the language in which Darwin introduces...

...season of the year, during each generation or at intervals, has to struggle for life, and to suffer great destruction. When we reflect on this struggle,...the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply." That says it all; don't you think? successful physiological systems carrying them. . . . Far therefore...

...season of the year, during each generation or at intervals, has to struggle for life, and to suffer great destruction. When we reflect on this struggle,...vigorous, the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply. — Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species I wanted to escape. I was determined to get away from the...