I may be allowed to personify the natural preservation or survival of the fittest, cares nothing for appearances, except in so far as they are useful to any being. She can act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional difference, on the... Quarterly Journal of Science: 1866 - Page 1531866Full view - About this book
| 1860 - 444 pages
...nothing for appearances, except IB go far as they may be useful to any being. She can act en ererr internal organ, on' every shade of constitutional...good; nature only for that of the being which she sends. Every selected character is fully exercised by her; and the being ia placed wider well-suited... | |
| Great Britain - 1860 - 880 pages
...external and visible characters ; nature cares nothing for appearances, except in BO far as they may be useful to any being. She can act on every internal...constitutional difference, on the whole machinery of lite. Man selects only for his own good; nature only for that of the being which she sends. Every selected... | |
| 1861 - 824 pages
...external and visible characters; nature cares nothing for appearances, except in BO far as they may be useful to any being. She can act on every internal...for his own good ; nature only for that of the being whom she tends. Every selected character is fully exercised by her ; and the being is placed under... | |
| robert scott burn - 1861 - 738 pages
...more powerful in its operation; for, while man can act only on external and visible characters, nature can act on every internal organ, on every shade of...nature only for that of the being which she tends. The main object of Mr Darwin's work is to illustrate and establish this supposed principle of natural... | |
| Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1861 - 470 pages
...external and visible characters : nature cares nothing for appearances, except in so far as they may be useful to any being. She can act on every internal...machinery of life. Man selects only for his own good ; Kature only for that of the being which she tends. Every selected character is fully exercised by... | |
| John Watts - Free thought - 1865 - 206 pages
...external and visible characters ; nature cares nothing for appearances, except in so far as they may be useful to any being. She can act on every internal...life. Man selects only for his own good ; nature only lor that of the being which she tends. Every selected character is fully exercised by her; and the... | |
| Science - 1866 - 658 pages
...work of modification ; and yet, as we have been told, " Nature," or " Natural Selection," can itself act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional difference, on the seed, and on the egg ; in fact, she, or it, can commence the work of variation as well as complete... | |
| Robert Mackenzie Beverley - Evolution - 1867 - 424 pages
...Darwin met Selection naturelle, et c'est tout un : 1'un n'est pas plus chimerique que 1'autre' (p. 31). on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional...which she tends. Every selected character is fully examined by her, and the being is placed under well-suited conditions of life.' Could studied language,... | |
| Robert Mackenzie Beverley - Evolution - 1867 - 598 pages
...extravagant expressions which may in any way glorify the chief puppet of his theory. Hence he tells us ' She can act on every internal organ, on every shade...constitutional difference, on the whole machinery of life ' (87). And with such a declaration, what may we not expect to be hazarded for its illustration ? In... | |
| Robert Mackenzie Beverley - Evolution - 1867 - 406 pages
...extravagant expressions which may in any way glorify the chief puppet of his theory. Hence he tells us ' SJie can act on every internal organ, on every shade of...constitutional difference, on the whole machinery of life ' (87). And with such a declaration, what may we not expect to be hazarded for its illustration ? In... | |
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