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" I should premise that I use this term [Struggle for Existence] in a large and metaphorical sense including dependence of one being on another, and including (which is more important) not only the life of the individual, but success in leaving progeny. "
Natural History: Its Rise and Progress in Britain as Developed in the Life ... - Page 282
by Henry Alleyne Nicholson - 1886 - 312 pages
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Eclectic and Congregational Review

1860 - 966 pages
...destroyed by slugs. All this describes what is metaphorically termed the struggle for existence. " Two canine animals, in a time of dearth, may be truly...shall get food, and live ; but a plant on the edge of a desert is said to struggle for life against the drought, though more properly it should be said to...
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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection; Or, The Preservation ...

Charles Darwin - 1861 - 470 pages
...a large and metaphorical sense, including dependence of one being on another, and including (which is more important) not only the life of the individual,...shall get food and live. But a plant on the edge of a desert is said to struggle for life against the drought, though more properly it should be said to...
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The Theological and Literary Journal, Volume 13

1861 - 824 pages
...one being on anotber, and including (which is more important) not only the life of the individuals, but success in leaving progeny. Two canine animals in a time of dearth maybe truly said to struggle with each other which shall get food and live. But a plant on the edge...
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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation ...

Charles Darwin - 1864 - 472 pages
...a large and metaphorical sense, including dependence of one being on another, and including (which is more important) not only the life of the individual,...shall get food and live. But a plant on the edge of a desert is said to struggle for life against the drought, though more properly it should be said to...
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Bibliotheca Sacra and Theological Review, Volume 52

1895 - 816 pages
...a large and metaphorical sense, including dependence of one being on another, and including, which is more important, not only the life of the individual, but success in leaving progeny" The followers of Darwin will undoubtedly claim that Darwin's positions have been misapprehended and...
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The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation of ...

Charles Darwin - 1873 - 492 pages
...being on another, and including (which is more important) not only the life of the individual^Jjut success in leaving progeny." Two canine animals, in...shall get food and live. But a plant on the edge of a desert is said to struggle for life against the drought, though more properly it should be said to...
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Zoological classification: a book of reference

Francis Polkinghorne Pascoe - 1880 - 364 pages
...a large and metaphorical sense, including dependence of one being on another, and including (which is more important) not only the life of the individual, but success in leaving progeny." Swim-bladder, air-bladder, or sound. An organ filled with air, placed under the spine in fishes. It...
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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation ...

Charles Darwin - 1882 - 494 pages
...in a large and metaphorical sense including dependence of cne being on another, and including (which is more important) not only the life of the individual,...said to struggle with each other which shall get food aud live. But a plaut on the edge of a desert is said to struggle for life against the drought, though...
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On the Origin of Species: By Means of Natural Selection, Or, the ...

Charles Darwin - 1883 - 494 pages
...in a large and metaphorical sense including dependence of one being on another, and including (which is more important) not only the life of the individual,...truly said to struggle with each other which shall got food and live. But a plant on the edge of a desert is said to struggle for life against the drought,...
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The Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 52; Volume 115

1890 - 898 pages
...its " large and metaphorical sense including dependence of one being on another, and including (which is more important) not only the life of the individual, but success in leaving progeny."* While he himself was chiefly using the term in its narrow sense for his own special purpose, he warned...
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