 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
 | James Platt - Men - 1890 - 220 pages
...world, the slightest variations ; rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that are good ; silently and insensibly working, whenever and...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... | |
 | Daniel Rees - Ethics - 1892 - 80 pages
...world, the slightest variations ; 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 in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life."1) From the nature of the case, natural... | |
 | Arthur Bower Griffiths - 1892 - 512 pages
...world, the slightest variations ; rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that are good ; silently and insensibly working, whenever and...wherever opportunity offers, at the improvement of cach organic hcing in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life. We see nothing of these... | |
 | Ernest Albert Parkyn - 1894 - 52 pages
...world the slightest variations ; rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that are good : silently and insensibly working, whenever and...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... | |
 | Charles Clement Coe - Evolution - 1895 - 638 pages
...world the slightest variations, rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that are good, silently and insensibly working whenever and...opportunity offers at the improvement of each organic being, in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life." — (Origin of Species, p. 63-6.) B But... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Science - 1896 - 408 pages
...world, the slightest variations ; rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that are good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and...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... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1896 - 406 pages
...world, the slightest variations; rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that are good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and...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... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Anthologies - 1897 - 494 pages
...world, the slightest variations; rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that are good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and...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... | |
 | Frank Dearborn Bullard - Faith - 1899 - 128 pages
...world, the slightest variation; rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that are good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and...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... | |
 | Benjamin Kidd - Civilization - 1902 - 558 pages
...world the slightest variations — rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that are good ; silently and insensibly working, whenever and...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... | |
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