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" will multiply them almost infinitely, and natural selection will pick out with unerring skill each improvement. Let this process go on for millions of years, and during each year on millions of individuals of many kinds; and "
Evolution, Old and New: Or, The Theories of Buffon - Page 6
by Samuel Butler - 1879 - 384 pages
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The Planetary Mind

Arne A. Wyller - Religion - 1996 - 288 pages
...destroyed. . . . Variations will cause the slight alterations, will multiply them almost infinitely, natural selection will pick out with unerring skill...improvement. Let this process go on for millions of years; during each year on millions of individuals. . . . May we not believe that a living optical instrument...
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Romantic Confusions of the Good: Beauty as Truth, Truth Beauty

Marion Montgomery - Literary Collections - 1997 - 296 pages
...old ones to be destroyed. In living bodies, variation will cause the slight alterations, generation will multiply them almost infinitely, and natural...pick out with unerring skill each improvement. Let the process go on for millions of years; and during each year on millions of individuals of many kinds;...
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The Origin of Species

Charles Darwin - Science - 1998 - 424 pages
...old ones to be destroyed. In living bodies, variation will cause the slight alterations, generation will multiply them almost infinitely, and natural...each improvement. Let this process go on for millions on millions of years; and during each year on millions of individuals of many kinds; and may we not...
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The Origin of Species

Charles Darwin - Science - 1998 - 486 pages
...old ones to be destroyed. In living bodies, variation will cause the slight alterations, generation will multiply them almost infinitely, and natural...each improvement. Let this process go on for millions on millions of years; and during each year on millions of individuals of many kinds; and may we not...
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Darwin's Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and ...

Gillian Beer - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 316 pages
...and natural selection: ‘In living bodies, variation will cause the slight alterations, generation will multiply them almost infinitely, and natural...will pick out with unerring skill each improvement.' Variation causes, generation multiplies, but natural selection ‘picks out with unerring skill'. The...
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Life Under the Sun

Peter A. Ensminger - Science - 2008 - 288 pages
...all. In the words of Darwin, "In living bodies, variation will cause slight alterations, generations will multiply them almost infinitely, and natural selection will pick out with almost unerring skill each improvement. Let this process go on for millions of years; and during each...
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On the Origin of Species

Charles Darwin - History - 2003 - 676 pages
...old ones to be destroyed. In living bodies, variation will cause the slight alterations, generation will multiply them almost infinitely, and natural...each improvement. Let this process go on for millions on millions of years; and during each year on millions of individuals of many kinds; and may we not...
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The Origin of Species

Charles Darwin - Fiction - 2004 - 590 pages
...old ones to be destroyed. In living bodies, variation will cause the slight alterations, generation will multiply them almost infinitely, and natural...each improvement. Let this process go on for millions on millions of years; and during each year on millions of individuals of many kinds; and may we not...
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The Philosophy of Biology: An Episodic History

Marjorie Grene, David J. Depew - Philosophy - 2004 - 446 pages
...old ones to be destroyed. In living bodies, variation will cause the slight alterations, generation will multiply them almost infinitely, and natural...each improvement. Let this process go on for millions on millions of years; and during each year on millions of individuals of many kinds; and may we not...
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