 | 1860 - 532 pages
...season of the year, during each generation or at intervals it has to struggle for life, and to suffer great destruction. When we reflect on this struggle...vigorous, the healthy and the happy, survive and multiply. Secondly, — There is in natvre (t principle of natural selection. — "How will the struggle lor... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1864 - 472 pages
...generation or at intervals, has to struggle for life and to suffer great destruction. When we reflect onT3us struggle, we may console ourselves with the full belief,...of nature is not incessant, that no fear is felt, iat death is generally prompt, and that the vigorous, the lealthy, and the happy survive and multiply.... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1866 - 668 pages
...season of the year, during each generation or at intervals, has to struggle for life, and to suffer great destruction. When we reflect on this struggle,...vigorous, the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply. CHAPTER IV. NATURAL SELECTION. Natural Selection — its power compared with man's selection — its... | |
 | John Lucas Tupper, Outis - Aesthetics - 1869 - 328 pages
...about the life-long harass and prolonged torture ; not only forgets all this former plea, but says " we may console ourselves with the full belief that...no fear is felt, that death is generally prompt," etc., etc. (p. 79). It seems difficult to conceive of a more daring contradiction than is involved... | |
 | John Lucas Tupper, Outis - Aesthetics - 1869 - 338 pages
...benevolence would wish, according to Mr. Darwin's doctrine, if not in his own exact words. He says, " we may console ourselves with the full belief, that...that no fear is felt, that death is generally prompt (has he watched a detachment of ants operating on a writhing caterpillar?), and that the vigorous,... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1873 - 492 pages
...the year, during each generation or at intervals, has to struggle for life .and to ,suffjgr_gre.at destruction. When we reflect on this struggle, we...survive and multiply. CHAPTEE IV. NATURAL SELECTION ; OR THE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST. Natural Selection — its power compared with man's selection —... | |
 | George St. Clair - Evolution - 1873 - 280 pages
...When we reflect on this struggle, as remarked by Mr Darwin himself, we may console ourselves with the belief that the war of nature is not incessant, that...vigorous, the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply. The creature that struggles is often stronger for the conflict — improved in every faculty and power... | |
 | Plymouth athenaeum - 1874 - 622 pages
...the whole little wood where I sit is a world of plunder and prey." Still, in the words of Darwin : " When we reflect on this struggle, we may console ourselves...the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply." There is some consolation here, but more when Faith's eagle-eye is so clear as to see, from the beams... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1884 - 494 pages
...season of the year, during each generation or at intervals, has to struggle for life and to suffer great destruction. When we reflect on this struggle,...healthy, and the happy survive and multiply. CHAPTEE IV. NATUBAL SBLKCTION; OB THE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST. Natural Selection — its power compared with man's... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1884 - 396 pages
...season of the year, during each generation or at intervals, has to struggle for life and to suffer great destruction. When we reflect on this struggle,...vigorous, the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply. v. NATURAL SELECTION: OR, THE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST. „ . . , THE preservation, during the battle... | |
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When we reflect on this struggle, we may console ourselves with the full belief, that the war of nature is not incessant, that no fear is felt, that death is generally prompt, and that the vigorous, the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply. 
