 | 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...in progress, until the hand of time has marked the long lapse of ages, and then so imperfect is our view into long-past geological ages, that we see only... | |
 | Samuel Jackson Holmes - Biology - 1926 - 470 pages
...world, the slightest variations; rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that are good; silently and insensibly working whenever and...lapse of ages, and then, so imperfect is our view into long past geological ages, that lve see only that the forms of life are now different from what they... | |
 | Samuel Jackson Holmes - Biology - 1926 - 476 pages
...world, the slightest variations; rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that are good; silently and insensibly working whenever and...lapse of ages, and then, so imperfect is our view into long past geological ages, that we see only that the forms of life are now different from what they... | |
 | 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...to its organic and inorganic conditions of life." (P. 84.) Now, I cannot believe in such doctrine. When I look at the anatomy of any part of the body,... | |
 | 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...to its organic and inorganic conditions of life." At other times, and increasingly as life wore on, his thoughts took a gloomier turn. There seems to... | |
 | Charles Coulston Gillispie - Science - 1960 - 596 pages
...progress through competition: "Rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that are good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and...offers, at the improvement of each organic being"; On success: "But success will often depend on the males having special weapons, or means of defence,... | |
 | 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...in progress, until the hand of time has marked the long lapse of ages, and then so imperfect is our view into long past geological ages, that we only... | |
 | 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...relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life. Darwin's struggle-selection mechanism is hardly a passive device! Crawford and Marsh's failure to appreciate... | |
 | 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...to its organic and inorganic conditions of life." This passage vividly evokes the relentlessness of selection but only hints that the difference between... | |
 | 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... | |
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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 wherever... 
