 | John C. Greene - Science - 1973 - 156 pages
...and Natural Theology 45 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." At other times, and increasingly as life wore on, his thoughts took a gloomier... | |
 | William S. Knickerbocker - Science - 1927 - 410 pages
...; rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that are good ; silently and sensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers,...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... | |
 | Frederick S. Szalay - Science - 1994 - 512 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... | |
 | Robert M. Torrance - Religion - 2023 - 396 pages
...the stamp of far higher workmanship. ... It may be said," therefore, "that natural selection is ... silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever...offers, at the improvement of each organic being" (133). But the "purposes" we metaphorically or retrospectively ascribe to Darwin's selective Nature... | |
 | Susan Wells - Education - 1996 - 312 pages
...of Species: 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... | |
 | Graeme Donald Snooks - Business & Economics - 1996 - 548 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. Darwin's struggle-selection mechanism is hardly a passive device! Crawford and... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Reference - 1996 - 382 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... | |
 | Michael R. Rose, George V. Lauder - Science - 1996 - 532 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." This passage vividly evokes the relentlessness of selection but only hints that... | |
 | Herbert D.G. Maschner - Social Science - 1996 - 292 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...improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic an inorganic conditions of life. (Darwin 1859:84) Here, darkly outlined, we encounter the personification... | |
 | P. Theerman, Karen Hunger Parshall - History - 1997 - 336 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."22 Now it might be thought that Darwin had merely clothed an entirely cold and... | |
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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... 
