 Slow though the process of selection may be, if feeble man can do much by his powers of artificial selection, I can see no limit. to the amount of change, to the beauty and infinite complexity of the coadaptations between all organic beings, one with...  The Darwinian Theory of the Transmutation of Species - Page 348by Robert Mackenzie Beverley - 1867 - 386 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1860 - 532 pages
...though the process of selection may be, if feeble man can do much by his powers of artificial selection, I can see no limit to the amount of change, to the...which may be effected in the long course of time by nature's power of selection." in past and present forma of life, are undoubtedly the strongest arguments... | |
 | Crosthwaite and co - 1860 - 622 pages
...most complex conditions of life, and should plainly bea the stamp of tar higher workmanship?" Again, "I can see no limit to the amount of change, to the...which may be effected in the long course of time by nature's power of selection." And Mr. Wallace concludes his memoir by stating that " there appears... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - 1860 - 786 pages
...may be," says our author, "if feeble man can do much by his powers of artificial selection, / can sce no limit to the amount of change, to the beauty and...which may be effected in the long course of time by nature's power of selection." We have given but the theme of thia timely and excellent work, which... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1860 - 612 pages
...vegetable or animal, have descended from some half-dozen progenitors, or even from a single prototype. " I can see no limit to the amount of change, to the beauty and infinite complexity of the «¡adaptations between all organic beings one with another, and with their physical conditions of... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1861 - 470 pages
...the process of selection may be, if feeble man can do much by his powers of artificial selection, 1 can see no limit to the amount of change, to the beauty...which may be effected in the long course of time by nature's power of selection. Extinction. — This subject will be more fully discussed in our chapter... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1864 - 472 pages
...though the process of selection may be, if feeble man can do much by his powers of artificial selection, I can see no limit. to the amount of change, to the...which may be effected in the long course of time by nature's power of selection. Extinction. — This subject will be more fully discussed in our chapter... | |
 | Robert Mackenzie Beverley - 1867 - 406 pages
...though the process of selection may be, if feeble man can do much by his powers of artificial selection, I can see no limit to the amount of change, to the...which may be effected in the long course of time by Nature's potver of Selection ' (115). Here the personification rises in intensity : if ' feeble man... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1870 - 468 pages
...the process of selection may be, if feeble man can do much by his powers of artificial selection, 1 can see no limit to the amount of change, to the beauty...which may be effected in the long course of time by nature's power of selection. JZftinction. — This subject will be more fully discussed in our chapter... | |
 | James Harrison Rigg - 1871 - 60 pages
...must be incomparably greater, and competent to produce incomparably superior effects in respect of "the beauty and infinite complexity of the co-adaptations...another, and with their physical conditions of life." Language of a similar sort he very frequently uses. He has, therefore, as a scientific man 32 laid... | |
 | Christian Evidence Society - 1871 - 552 pages
...must be incomparably greater, and competent to produce incomparably superior effects in respect of "the beauty and infinite complexity of the co-adaptations...another, and with their physical conditions of life." Language of a similar sort he very frequently uses. He has, therefore, as a scientific man laid himself... | |
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