 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...  The God Delusion - Page 180by Richard Dawkins - 2011 - 464 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Methodist Church - 1861 - 716 pages
...omnipotence. Here is its apotheosis : It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing throughout the world every variation, even the slightest...opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life. We see nothing of these slow changes in... | |
 | 1861 - 824 pages
...truer in character than man's? "It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest,...wherever opportunity offers, at the improvement of every organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life. We see nothing of... | |
 | John Duns - 1863 - 650 pages
...selection — the goddess of his devotion — which is thus introduced : — " It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising,...opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life. We see nothing of these slow changes in... | |
 | William Edward Hearn - Distribution (Economic theory) - 1863 - 500 pages
...organic nature, " it may metaphorically be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation even the slightest...silently and insensibly working whenever and wherever opportimity offers at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1864 - 472 pages
...conditions of life, and should plainly bear the stamp of far higher workmanship ? It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising,...opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life. We see nothing of these slow changes in... | |
 | John Watts - Free thought - 1865 - 206 pages
...and should plainly bear the stamp of far higher workmanship ? " It may metaphysically be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising,...opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life. We see nothing of these slow changes in... | |
 | Henry A. DuBois - Human beings - 1866 - 112 pages
...Creator, constantly at work. " It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest...is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good." —p. 80. " If then we have, under nature, variability, and a' powerful agent, always ready, to act... | |
 | Religion and science - 1867 - 510 pages
...another, page 95< " It may metaphorically be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest...is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good." Darwin says distinctly that when he speaks thus he speaks metaphorically, not literally. The remarks... | |
 | 1870 - 976 pages
...according to his conception of it, is described by him as follows : — It may metaphorically be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising...opportunity offers at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life." In this manner he imagines " species... | |
 | 1866 - 694 pages
...Creator, constantly at work. " It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest;...is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good." —p. 80. " If then we have, under nature, variability, and a powerful agent, always ready to act and... | |
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