 | 1902 - 642 pages
...been urged by his critics, his deliberate judgement on the efficiency of natural selection : — 1 It may metaphorically be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, throughout the world, the slightest variations ; rejecting those that are bad, preserving... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1861 - 716 pages
...appears endowed with the highest attributes of wisdom and omnipotence. Here is its apotheosis : It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing throughout the world every variation, even the sfightest ; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that... | |
 | 1860 - 532 pages
...how short his time ! and, consequently, how poor his products will be compared with those accumulated by nature during whole geological periods ! Can we...bear the stamp of far higher workmanship ? It may be metaphorically said that natural selection is daily, hourly scrutinizing throughout the world every... | |
 | Crosthwaite and co - 1860 - 622 pages
...how short hig time ! and consequently how poor will bis products be compared with those accumulated by nature during whole geological periods. Can we...most complex conditions of life, and should plainly bea the stamp of tar higher workmanship?" Again, "I can see no limit to the amount of change, to the... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1860 - 612 pages
...short his time ! and, consequently, how poor •will his products be compared with those accumulated by nature during whole geological periods ! Can we...productions ; that they should be infinitely better adapted by the most complex conditions of life, and should plainly bear the stamp of far higher workmanship... | |
 | 1860 - 444 pages
...his products be compared with those accumulated by nature during whole geological periods ! Can ^ e -wonder, then, that nature's productions should be...productions; that they should be infinitely better adapted by the moat complex conditions of life, and should plainly bear the stamp of far higher workmanship."*... | |
 | Great Britain - 1860 - 880 pages
...short his time ! — and consequently, how poor will his products be compared with those accumulated by nature during whole geological periods ! Can we...productions should be far truer in character than mau's productions ; that they should be infinitely better adapted by the most complex conditions of... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1861 - 470 pages
...how short his time ! and consequently how poor will his products be, compared with those accumulated by nature during whole geological periods. Can we...bear the stamp of far higher workmanship ? It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, throughout the world, every variation,... | |
 | 1861 - 824 pages
...life. " Can we wonder that nature's productions should be far truer in character than man's? "It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest, rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1861 - 716 pages
...appears endowed with the highest attributes of wisdom and omnipotence. Here is its apotheosis : It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing throughout the world every variation, even the slightest ; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that... | |
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Nature's productions should be far "truer" in character than man's productions; that they should be infinitely better adapted to the most complex conditions of life, and should plainly bear the stamp of far higher workmanship? 
