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" 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 is good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever... "
Analysis of Darwin, Huxley and Lyell, Being a Critical Examination of the ... - Page 12
by Henry A. DuBois - 1866 - 94 pages
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The Methodist Quarterly Review, Volume 21; Volume 43

Methodist Church - 1861 - 716 pages
...it appears endowed with the highest attributes of wisdom and omnipotence. Here is its apotheosis : It may be said that natural selection is daily and...scrutinizing throughout the world every variation, even the sfightest ; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly...
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The New Englander, Volumes 19-20

Criticism - 1861 - 1148 pages
...extent of endowing Nature with creative self-activity. Darwin puts this in so many words, when he says that " Natural Selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing,...is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good ; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers, at the improvement of...
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 19

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1861 - 992 pages
...extent of endowing Nature with creative self-activity. Darwin puts this in so many words, when he says that " Natural Selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing,...variation, even the slightest ; rejecting that which is had, preserving and adding up all that is good ; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 109

American periodicals - 1871 - 878 pages
...Providences. If, then, that should be true which Mr. Darwin writes — "It may be metaphori-j cally said that natural selection is daily | and hourly...rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up that which is good, silently and incessantly working whenever and wherever opportunity otters at the...
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The Popular lecturer [afterw.] Pitman's Popular lecturer (and ..., Volumes 4-6

Henry Pitman - 1316 pages
...more penetrating. Nothingescapes her keen eye. " Natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising throughout the world every variation, even the slightest...is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good, silently and insensibly working, wherever and whenever opportunity offers, at the improvement of each...
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The North British Review, Volumes 32-33

1860 - 660 pages
...? " It may be said," answers the author, " that Natural Selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest...is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good ; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers, at the improvement of...
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The Theological and Literary Journal, Volume 13

1861 - 824 pages
...conditions of 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...is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good ; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers, at the improvement of...
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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection; Or, The Preservation ...

Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1861 - 470 pages
...of far higher workmanship ? It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest...is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good ; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers, at the improvement of...
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Plutology ; Or, The Theory of the Efforts to Satisfy Human Wants

William Edward Hearn - Distribution (Economic theory) - 1863 - 500 pages
...whether physical or social is secured. Of society, as well as of organic nature, " it may metaphorically be said that natural selection is daily and hourly...is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good, silently and insensibly working whenever and wherever opportimity offers at the improvement of each...
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Biblical natural science, Volume 1

John Duns - 1863 - 650 pages
...is thus introduced : — " It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest....is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good ; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers, at the improvement of...
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