 | 1909 - 844 pages
...cattle and sheep, with horses, dogs, and all forms of life that man has excepted from the biological law and subjected to the law of mind; and both the...in preventing the really fittest from surviving." And Mr. Ward goes oa with some sentences which seem to me to contain the kernel of the argument. "Hard... | |
 | Lester Frank Ward - 1892 - 400 pages
...advancement. Such has been the case with the cereals and fruit trees, and with domestic animals, in fact, with all the forms of life that man has excepted from the biologic law and subjected to the law of mind. The supposed tendency of such forms to revert to their original wild state, about which so much has... | |
 | 1901 - 766 pages
...effect of competition is to prevent any form from attaining its maximum development, and to maintain a comparatively low level for all forms that succeed...in preventing the really fittest from surviving." ' While in general we must agree with Professor Ward, I do not think that the process which he describes... | |
 | Richard Theodore Ely - 1903 - 528 pages
...effect of competition is to prevent any form from attaining its maximum development, and to maintain a comparatively low level for all forms that succeed...in preventing the really fittest from surviving." 1 While in general we must agree with Professor Ward, it is open to question whether or not the process... | |
 | Richard Theodore Ely - 1903 - 552 pages
...outstrips all those that depend upon competition. Such has been the case with all the cereals and 141 fruit trees ; it is the case with domestic cattle...in preventing the really fittest from surviving." 1 While in general we must agree with Professor Ward, it is open to question whether or not the process... | |
 | 1909 - 858 pages
...cattle and sheep, with horses, dogs, and all forms of life that man has excepted from the biological law and subjected to the law of mind; and both the...in preventing the really fittest from surviving." And Mr. Ward goes oa with some sentences which seem to me to contain the kernel of the argument. "Hard... | |
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This is made clear by the fact that wherever competition is wholly removed, as through the agency of man, in the interest of any one form, that form immediately begins to make great strides and soon outstrips all those that depend upon competition. Such... 