Hence we may look with some confidence to a secure future of equally inappreciable length. And as natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection. The Origin of Speciesby Charles Darwin - 19?? - 238 pagesNo preview available - About this book
| Brighton and Hove Natural History and Philosophical Society, Brighton - Science - 1898 - 644 pages
...greater than what wo have lost." This I think fairly represents the view of the advocates of progress. natural selection works solely by and for the good...of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments would tend to progress towards perfection." That was so in harmony with men's desires, hopes, and aspirations,... | |
| Woods Hutchinson - Evolution - 1898 - 266 pages
...a law unto themselves : which shew the work of the law written in their hearts." — ROMANS ii. 14. "And as Natural Selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection. There is a grandeur in this... | |
| Thomas George Gentry - Animal behavior - 1900 - 532 pages
...confidence of an equally secure and inappreciably enduring earth-life. And as Natural Selection operates solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection. When we contemplate a tangled bank, with innumerable plants of diverse kinds, and... | |
| THOMAS G GENTRY - 1900 - 566 pages
...confidence of an equally secure and inappreciably enduring earth-life. And as Natural Selection operates solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection. When we contemplate a tangled bank, with innumerable plants of diverse kinds, and... | |
| Evolution - 1902 - 200 pages
...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...corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection. It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many... | |
| John Lord - History - 1902 - 528 pages
...look with some confidence to a secure future of great length. And as natural selection works slowly by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and...endowments will tend to progress towards perfection." For his own part, Darwin could see no good reason why the views propounded in the two volumes comprising... | |
| James Hastings, Ann Wilson Hastings, Edward Hastings - Bible - 1902 - 602 pages
...their posterity. Their advantage in the race of life is not theirs but their offspring's. Darwin said, 'Natural Selection works solely by and for the good of each being.' Mr. Kidd and others have discovered that Darwin was wholly wrong. In the struggle for existence the... | |
| Benjamin Kidd - Civilization - 1902 - 558 pages
...expounded is emphasised, the fact is again insisted on that the object throughout has been to show that Natural Selection works solely by and for the good of each being? It may be readily distinguished from this, and a large class of similar evidence, that Darwin regarded... | |
| Aubrey Lackington Moore - Apologetics - 1905 - 292 pages
...suffering which might have been avoided. And here Darwinism gives us a hint, if it is but a hint.. " Natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being." * The arrangement of the world is " generally beneficent," f and tends to progress towards, or to maintain,... | |
| James Ward - Philosophy - 1911 - 516 pages
...ie between species and species. In concluding the Origin of Species Darwin went so far as to say : "As natural selection works solely by and for the...endowments will tend to progress towards perfection." Even if we allow this claim there still remains the fact that all the lower forms of life prey one... | |
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