 | United States - 1902 - 708 pages
...and the weakest die." Or, again, the closing words of the chapter on the "Struggle for Existence" : "When we reflect on this struggle, we may console...the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply." Yet we must remember that this is not the language of cold philosophy. We cannot reject it as we might... | |
 | Thomas Hunt Morgan - Adaptation (Biology). - 1903 - 498 pages
...season of the year, during each generation or at intervals, has to struggle for life and to suffer great destruction. When we reflect on this struggle,...the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply." The kindliness of heart that prompted the concluding sentence may arouse our admiration for the humanity... | |
 | Dennis Hird - Evolution - 1903 - 260 pages
...season of the year, during each generation or at intervals, has to struggle for life and to suffer great destruction. When we reflect on this struggle,...the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply." CHAPTER VIII. NATURAL SELECTION THE lowest forms of life are so simple that it may well seem hard to... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1903 - 888 pages
...(which is more important) not only the life of the individual, but success in leaving progeny. . . . ancholy ' bird ! A melancholy bird ? Oh ! idle thought ! In Nature there is nothing (Origin of Species, pp. 49, 50, 61.) Malthus and Darwinism. In October 1838, that is, fifteen months... | |
 | English periodicals - 1906 - 660 pages
...Darwin himself, who thus concludes his chapter on the struggle for existence : ' When we reflect upon this struggle, we may console ourselves with the full...the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply.' And in the Nineteenth Century, November, 1890, Prince Kropotkin wrote : — How false, therefore, is... | |
 | Frank Ballard - Apologetics - 1908 - 220 pages
...Darwin himself, who thus concludes his chapter on the struggle for existence : ' When we reflect upon this struggle, we may console ourselves with the full...vigorous, the healthy, and the happy, survive and multiply ? ' " Prince Kropotkin, moreover, certainly holds no brief for orthodoxy. Yet, speaking as a man of... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - Biology - 1908 - 280 pages
...misery," concludes his chapter on the struggle for Existence with the sentence, "When we reflect on the struggle, we may console ourselves with the full belief...the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply." If we say that it is not so much the cruelty that repels us, but the rank egoism of it all, then we... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1909 - 584 pages
...season of the year, during each generation or at intervals, has to struggle for life and to suffer great destruction. When we reflect on this struggle,...vigorous, the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply. CHAPTER IV NATURAL SELECTION ; OR THE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST Natural Selection — its power compared... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1909 - 544 pages
...during each generation, or at intervals, has to struggle for life and to suffer great destruction1. When we reflect on this struggle, we may console ourselves...the vigorous, the healthy, and the happy survive and multiplet CHAPTER IV NATURAL SELECTION; OR THE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST Natural Selection — its power... | |
 | Allan Menzies - Philosophy - 1909 - 860 pages
...mitigate the severity of the picture by the assurance that the war of Nature is not incessant, that nofear is felt, that death is generally prompt, and that...vigorous, the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply. In short, he forgets that the phrase, "the struggle for existence," is a vivid figure of speech, insists... | |
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When we reflect on this struggle, we may console ourselves with the full belief, that the war of nature is not incessant, that no fear is felt, that death is generally prompt, and that the vigorous, the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply. 
