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" It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, 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... "
The God Delusion - Page 180
by Richard Dawkins - 2011 - 464 pages
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 196

1902 - 642 pages
...world, the slightest variations ; rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that are good ; silently and insensibly working, whenever and...opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life. We see nothing of those slow changes in...
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The Methodist Quarterly Review, Volume 43

Methodist Church - 1861 - 716 pages
...selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing throughout the world every variation, even the sfightest ; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding...opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and morganic conditions of life. We see nothing of these slow changes in...
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The New Englander, Volumes 19-20

Criticism - 1861 - 1148 pages
...puts this in so many words, when he says that " Natural Selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest...offers, at the improvement of each organic being, in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life."f What then is the Creator birt an Emersonian...
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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
...puts this in so many words, when he says that " Natural Selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every 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
...writes — "It may be metaphori-j cally said that natural selection is daily | and hourly scrutinizing throughout the | world, every variation, even the...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
...variations may seem to man, the glance of nature is more penetrating. Nothingescapes her keen eye. " Natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising...all that is good, silently and insensibly working, wherever and whenever opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being. We see nothing...
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The North British Review, Volumes 32-33

1860 - 656 pages
...the author's devotion is seated on it. How employed ? " It may be said," answers the author, " that Natural Selection is daily and hourly scrutinising,...opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life. We see nothing of these slow changes in...
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The North British review

1860 - 580 pages
...on it. How employed 1 " It may be said," answers the author, " that Natural Selection is daily anil hourly scrutinising, throughout the world, every variation,...opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life. We see nothing of these slow changes in...
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The Geologist: A Popular Monthly Magazine of Geology, Volume 1

1860 - 532 pages
...higher workmanship ? It may be metaphorically said that natural selection is daily, hourly scrutinizing throughout the world every variation, even the slightest ; rejecting that which is bad, preserving that which is good; silently and invisibly working whenever and wherever opportunity offers, at the...
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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection; Or, The Preservation ...

Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1861 - 470 pages
...conditions of life, and should plainly bear the stamp of far higher workmanship ? It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising,...opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life. We see nothing of these slow changes in...
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