...necessary to observe that Darwin says that the struggle for existence and the survival of the fittest is " the Doctrine of Malthus applied with manifold force to the whole animal and vegetable kingdoms "*; and he devotes the third chapter to explaining how " the geometrical ratio of increase " only leaves...

...either one individual with another of the same species, or with the individuals of distinct species, or with the physical conditions of life. It is the doctrine...force to the whole animal and vegetable Kingdoms." Origin of Species, ch. 4, first paragraph of the section, "Geometrical Rate of Increase." Cf. also...

...either one individual with another of the same species, or with the individuals of distinct species, or with the physical conditions of life. It is the doctrine...manifold force to the whole animal and vegetable kingdoms (Darwin, 1859, pp. 62-3). In this passage Darwin clearly specified the components of the struggle for...

...This connection—summarized so unavoidably in Darwin's statement that his struggle for existence was "the doctrine of Malthus applied with manifold force to the whole animal and vegetable kingdoms"—combined with other developments in natural science to expose serious weaknesses in radical...

...of such checks by improving harvests, housing or hospitals. The struggle for existence, Darwin said, 'is the doctrine of Malthus applied with manifold...of food, and no prudential restraint from marriage' (Darwin 1859, p. 63). And so, as Wallace says: 'famine, droughts, floods and winter's storms, would...

...either one individual with another of the same species, or with individuals of distinct species, or with the physical conditions of life. It is the doctrine...manifold force to the whole animal and vegetable kingdoms . . . There is no exception to the rule that every organic being naturally increases at so high a rate,...

...either one individual with another of the same species, or with the individuals of distinct species, or with the physical conditions of life. It is the doctrine...with manifold force to the whole animal and vegetable kingdoms.18 Economic phenomena are formed from human intentions and motives but are becoming increasingly...

...understatement. In the Origin of Species, Darwin told his readers that the theory of natural selection "is the doctrine of Malthus applied with manifold force to the whole animal and vegetable kingdom," and in his Autobiography he credited Malthus with having set in motion the whole train of...

...to Malthusian principles. Nonetheless, in The Origin he characterized the struggle for existence as "the doctrine of Malthus applied with manifold force to the whole animal and vegetable kingdoms."8 The struggle for existence in its strict sense applied to relations between species as...

...Population (1798) as the key element in the precipitation of his theory of 'struggle for existence' - 'the doctrine of Malthus applied with manifold force to the whole animal and vegetable kingdoms' (p. 117) - it has been possible to relate Darwin quite explicitly to the dominant capitalist ideology...