 | Methodist Church - 1861 - 712 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. We see nothing of these slow changes in progress until the hand of time has marked... | |
 | Alfred Fairhurst - Evolution - 1913 - 502 pages
...variations in some way advantageous, which consequently endure." Again he says, " 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 process, until the hand of time has marked... | |
 | Frederic Mathews - Social problems - 1914 - 706 pages
...which it has to escape, or on which it preys."1 "It may metaphorically be said," continues Darwin,2 "that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing,...organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life." Such is the briefest possible statement of the theory of biological evolution... | |
 | 1921 - 560 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... | |
 | A. Waddingham Seers - Anthropology - 1922 - 216 pages
...cases blindness is often compensated by an improvement in the organs of feeling, such as antennae. " It may be metaphorically said that natural selection...organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life. We see nothing of these slow changes in progress, until thejhand of Time has marked... | |
 | A. Waddingham Seers - Anthropology - 1922 - 216 pages
...hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, the slightest variations ; rejecting those that are \>ad, preserving and adding up all that are good ; silently...organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life. We see nothing of these slow changes in progress, until thejhand of Time has marked... | |
 | Sir William Cecil Dampier Dampier, Margaret Dampier Dampier - Science - 1924 - 312 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. We see nothing of these slow changes in progress, until the hand of time has marked... | |
 | Samuel Jackson Holmes - Biology - 1926 - 476 pages
...the leaf butterfly might finally have been evolved. To quote Mr. Darwin : 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... | |
 | Samuel Jackson Holmes - Biology - 1926 - 470 pages
...as the leaf butterfly might finally have been evolved. To quote Mr. Darwin: 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... | |
 | Royal Society of Edinburgh - Science - 1862 - 552 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." (P. 84.) Now, I cannot believe in such doctrine. When I look at the anatomy of... | |
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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... 
