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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... "
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation ... - Page 79
by Charles Darwin - 1864 - 440 pages
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The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine, Volume 2

1860 - 444 pages
...nothing for appearances, except IB go far as they may be useful to any being. She can act en ererr internal organ, on' every shade of constitutional...good; nature only for that of the being which she sends. Every selected character is fully exercised by her; and the being ia placed wider well-suited...
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The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine

1860 - 880 pages
...characters ; nature cares nothing for appearances, except in BO 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 lite. Man selects only for his own good; nature only for that of the being which she sends. Every selected...
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the journal of agriculture

robert scott burn - 1861 - 738 pages
...more powerful in its operation; for, while man can act only on external and visible characters, nature can act on every internal organ, on every shade of...nature only for that of the being which she tends. The main object of Mr Darwin's work is to illustrate and establish this supposed principle of natural...
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The Theological and Literary Journal, Volume 13

1861 - 824 pages
...characters; nature cares nothing for appearances, except in BO far as they may be 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 whom she tends. Every selected character is fully exercised by her ; and the being is placed under...
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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection; Or, The Preservation ...

Charles Darwin - 1861 - 470 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...machinery of life. Man selects only for his own good ; Kature only for that of the being which she tends. Every selected character is fully exercised by...
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Half-hours with Freethinkers

John Watts - 1865 - 206 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...life. Man selects only for his own good ; nature only lor that of the being which she tends. Every selected character is fully exercised by her; and the...
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The Quarterly Journal of Science, Volume 3

1866 - 658 pages
...work of modification ; and yet, as we have been told, " Nature," or " Natural Selection," can itself act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional difference, on the seed, and on the egg ; in fact, she, or it, can commence the work of variation as well as complete...
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Quarterly Journal of Science: 1866, Volume 3

1866 - 736 pages
...work of modification ; and yet, as we have been told, " Nature," or " Natural Selection," can itself act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional difference, on the seed, and on the egg ; in fact, she, or it, can commence the work of variation as well as complete...
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The Darwinian Theory of the Transmutation of Species

Robert Mackenzie Beverley - 1867 - 424 pages
...Darwin met Selection naturelle, et c'est tout un : 1'un n'est pas plus chimerique que 1'autre' (p. 31). on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional...which she tends. Every selected character is fully examined by her, and the being is placed under well-suited conditions of life.' Could studied language,...
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The Darwinian Theory of the Transmutation of Species

Robert Mackenzie Beverley - 1867 - 598 pages
...extravagant expressions which may in any way glorify the chief puppet of his theory. Hence he tells us ' She can act on every internal organ, on every shade...constitutional difference, on the whole machinery of life ' (87). And with such a declaration, what may we not expect to be hazarded for its illustration ? In...
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