 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1909 - 544 pages
...placed in a most conspicuous position—namely, at the close of the Introduction—the following words: "I am convinced that natural selection has been the...main but not the exclusive means of modification." This has been of no avail. Great is the power of steady misrepres"m.iiion; but the history of science... | |
 | Francis Rolt-Wheeler - Science - 1909 - 328 pages
...placed in a most conspicuousposition—namely, at the close of the Introduction—the following words: 'I am convinced that natural selection has been the...main, but not the exclusive, means of modification.' This has been of no avail. Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 596 pages
...placed in a most conspicuous position— namely, at the close of the Introduction the following words: "I am convinced that natural selection has been the...main but not the exclusive means of modification." This has been of no avail. Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science... | |
 | Francis Rolt-Wheeler - History of mathematics - 1909 - 318 pages
...placed in a most conspicuousposition—namely, at the close of the Introduction—the following words: 'I am convinced that natural selection has been the...main, but not the exclusive, means of modification.' This has been of no avail. Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science... | |
 | Douglas Dewar, Frank Finn - Evolution - 1909 - 452 pages
...in a most conspicuous position—namely, at the close of the Introduction—the following words: ' I am convinced that natural selection has been the...main but not the exclusive means of modification.' This has been of no avail. Great is the power of steady misrepresentation ; but the history of science... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1909 - 570 pages
...placed in a most conspicuous position— namely, at the close of the Introduction the following words : "I am convinced that natural selection has been the...main but not the exclusive means of modification." This has been of no avail. Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science... | |
 | Biology - 1909 - 784 pages
...in a most conspicuous position—namely, at the close of the Introduction—the following words: " I am convinced that natural selection has been the...main but not the exclusive means of modification." This has been of no avail. Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science... | |
 | Joseph McFarland - 1910 - 472 pages
...much careful examination and experimentation. In conclusion Mr. Darwin makes the following statement: "I am convinced that natural selection has been the...main but not the exclusive means of modification." In one of the excerpts given above this language is used: "But if variations useful to any organic being... | |
 | Robert William Hegner - Zoology - 1910 - 446 pages
...claimed for the theory, even by Darwin, for he says, in the introduction to the Origin of Species, " I am convinced that natural selection has been the...main, but not the exclusive, means of modification " (236). THE THEORY OF ORTHOGENESIS. —Many phenomena of the evolution of organisms cannot be explained... | |
 | William Albert Locy - Biology - 1910 - 469 pages
...placed in a most conspicuous position,—namely, at the close of the introduction—the following words: 'I am convinced that natural selection has been the...main, but not the exclusive means of modification.' This has been of no avail. Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.But the history of science... | |
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He was more cautious in publication, for in the first edition of the Origin of Species, which appeared in the same year, he said: "I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main, but not the 'exclusive, means of modification. 
