 | Judith Hooper - Nature - 2002 - 412 pages
...characteristics: nature cares nothing for appearances, except so far as they may be useful to any being. She can act on every internal organ, on every shade...constitutional difference, on the whole machinery of life.'9 The single example drawn from nature was the phenomenon of insect mimicry reported by the naturalist... | |
 | Jack Leonard Benson - Art - 2004 - 228 pages
...pointed reference to that world that I was able to find in Origins occurs in Chapter IV: "she (Nature) can act on every internal organ, on every shade of...constitutional difference, on the whole machinery of life." At another point, in discussing eyes, he used, with feigned reluctance but very tendentiously, the... | |
 | Carol Reeves - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2005 - 148 pages
...survival of the fittest, cares nothing for appearances, except in so far as they are useful to any being. She can act on every internal organ, on every shade...Nature only for that of the being which she tends. (Darwin, 1859: 38-9) Commentary In this example, Darwin uses argument from relationship in order to... | |
 | Robert Trapp, Janice E. Schuetz - Debates and debating - 2006 - 360 pages
...any being" (Darwin, 1967). While most of Darwin's ensuing contrasts stress nature's superior sweep, "She can act on every internal organ, on every shade...constitutional difference, on the whole machinery of life" and ruthlessness. Darwin believes that humanity "does not rigidly destroy all inferior animals, ..."... | |
 | David N. Stamos - Science - 2012 - 296 pages
...characters," whereas natural selection acts "on every shade of constitutional difference" (83). Furthermore, "Man selects only for his own good; Nature only for that of the being which she tends." Finally, the wishes and efforts of man are "fleeting," his time is "short," so that "how poor will... | |
 | Deborah Denenholz Morse, Martin A. Danahay - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 342 pages
...characters: nature cares nothing for appearances, except in so far as they may be useful to any being. She can act on every internal organ, on every shade...Nature only for that of the being which she tends" (Darwin, Origin of Species, p. 146). Unlike Tennyson's personification of a dangerously ruthless force... | |
 | Frederick Burkhardt, Alison M. Pearn, Samantha Evans - Science - 2008 - 23 pages
...it is misunderstood & apparently always will be. Referring to your book I find such expressions as "Man selects only for his own good; Nature only for that of the being which she tends". This it seems will always be misunderstood; but if you had said "Man selects only for his own good;... | |
 | Australia - 18?? - 576 pages
...survival of the fittest, cares nothing for appearances, except in so far as they are useful to any being. She can act on every internal organ, on every shade...for his own good, Nature only for that of the being for which she tends. ... It may metaphorically be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising... | |
 | John Caiazza - 152 pages
...do, natural selection must be both omnipresent and deterministic in order that, as Darwin said, "[it] can act on every internal organ, on every shade of...constitutional difference, on the whole machinery of life." Natural selection, that is, must explain virtually every salient feature of any viable species that... | |
 | William F. Bynum, Roy Porter - History of Medicine - 1993 - 810 pages
...effect was to mould and shape the forms of actually existing species. Through death, Darwin held, nature can act on every internal organ, on every shade of...constitutional difference, on the whole machinery of life. ... It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, throughout the world, every... | |
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I may be allowed to personify the natural preservation or survival of the fittest, cares nothing for appearances, except in so far as they are useful to any being. She can act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional difference, on the... 
