 | Charles Bray - 1883 - 352 pages
...every variation, even the slightest ; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good, silently and insensibly working whenever and...organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life." He also says, " The term general good may be defined as the means by which the... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1884 - 396 pages
...conditions of life, and should plainly bear the stamp of far higher workmanship ? : It may metaphorically be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing,...organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life. We see nothing of these slow changes in progress, until the hand of Time has marked... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1884 - 320 pages
...every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good ; silently and insensibly working, whenever and...organic being, in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life,' — if this, I say, were proved to be true, ought God's care and God's providence... | |
 | William J. Cassidy - Creation - 1887 - 392 pages
...every variation, even the slightest, rejecting all that is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good, silently and insensibly working, whenever and...organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life. We see nothing of these slow changes in progress until the hand of time has marked... | |
 | Constance E. Plumptre - Causation - 1888 - 210 pages
...Heredity and Adaptation ; if (in the words of Darwin) "Natural Selection is daily and hourly scrutinising throughout the world the slightest variations, rejecting...organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life" ; our theory of ethics must be modified accordingly. If (what, after all, has passed... | |
 | Brooklyn Ethical Association - Evolution - 1889 - 424 pages
...every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and...organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life." In the struggle for existence, always going on, it is evident that individuals... | |
 | Thomas Spencer Baynes - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 924 pages
...irregularly and imperfectly for a short time, nature by accumulation during whole geological periods. Natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing,...organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life. It may operate on characters which we are apt to consider of very trifling importance,... | |
 | James Platt - Men - 1890 - 220 pages
...workmanship ? " It may metaphorically be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, throughout the world, the slightest variations ; rejecting...organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life. We see nothing of these slow changes in progress, until the hand of time has marked... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - First philosophy - 1891 - 584 pages
...exjrression of variation. Mr. Darwin is at times explicit enough on this head : " It may metaphorically be said that Natural Selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing...organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life."* But the metaphorical nature of the term is not always borne in mind, so that... | |
 | Daniel Rees - Ethics - 1892 - 80 pages
...selection". "It may metaphorically be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, throughout the world, the slightest variations; rejecting...organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life."1) From the nature of the case, natural selection works only for the good of the... | |
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It may metaphorically be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, the slightest variations; rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that are good; silently and insensibly working, whenever... 
