 | California - 1918 - 658 pages
...where wild creatures are concerned we must remember Darwin's words on the Struggle for Existence : "When we reflect on this struggle we may console ourselves...vigorous, the healthy and the happy survive and multiply." MADONNA /AIA She is more beautiful than summer morn, Than all the magic of forgotten years, Within... | |
 | Oliver Elton - English literature - 1920 - 468 pages
...spectacle of a world developed through the workings of internecine strife does not make him melancholy : When we reflect on this struggle we may console ourselves...vigorous, the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply. Darwin has little of the tragic or mystical sense which is evident in another great observer, J.-H.... | |
 | Oliver Elton - English literature - 1920 - 460 pages
...spectacle of a world developed through the workings of internecine strife does not make him melancholy : When we reflect on this struggle we may console ourselves...vigorous, the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply. Darwin has little of the tragic or mystical sense which is evident in another great observer, J.-H.... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - Biological Evolution - 1920 - 356 pages
...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...fear is felt, that death is generally prompt, and the vigorous, the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply." We must beware of anthropomorphic exaggeration,... | |
 | A. Waddingham Seers - Anthropology - 1922 - 216 pages
...by shorthorns as if by a murderous pestilence." " When we reflect on this struggle," says Darwin, " we may console ourselves with the full belief, that...the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply." Again, we find adaptations of structure as the result of use or disuse. The domestic duck has a bigger... | |
 | A. Waddingham Seers - Anthropology - 1922 - 216 pages
...by shorthorns as if by a murderous pestilence." " When we reflect on this struggle," says Darwin, " we may console ourselves with the full belief, that...the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply." Again, we find adaptations of structure as the result of use or disuse. The domestic duck has a bigger... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - Evolution - 1889 - 523 pages
...was evidently that of Darwin himself, who thus concludes his chapter on the struggle for existence: " When we reflect on this struggle, we may console ourselves...healthy, and the happy survive and multiply," CHAPTEE III THE VARIABILITY OF SPECIES IN A STATE OF NATURE Importance of variability—Popular ideas regarding... | |
 | Alfred Louis Kroeber, Thomas Talbot Waterman - Anthropology - 1924 - 606 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. NATURAL SELECTION : SUMMARY If under changing conditions of life organic beings present individual... | |
 | Rudolph Wilson Chamberlain, Joseph Sheldon Gerry Bolton - American prose literature - 1923 - 396 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. CELTIC ELEMENTS IN ENGLISH POETRY1 MATTHEW ARNOLD The philosophical pessimism consequent upon the dissemination... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - Natural theology - 1925 - 300 pages
...enjoyment of life with the minimum of suffering and pain." (Darwinism, 1889, p. 40.) What did Darwin say ? "When we reflect on this struggle, we may console...the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply." (Origin of Species, 6th ed., 1872, p. 61.) The scheme of Living Nature is a continual sequence of embodiments... | |
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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. 
