 | George John Romanes - 1882 - 550 pages
...Melothrus Canariensis that he quotes my words, and asks, ' Must we consider these habits not as especially endowed or created instincts, but as small consequences of one general law, namely transition 1 ' 1 Such are all the facts and considerations which I have to present with reference... | |
 | 1884 - 1142 pages
...instincts as the young cuckoo ejecting its foster-brothers, ants making slaves, the larvae of ichneumonidee feeding within the live bodies of caterpillars, not...or created instincts, but as small consequences of CDS general law leading- to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the... | |
 | George Thomas Bettany - 1887 - 232 pages
...instincts as the young cuckoo ejecting its foster-brothers, ants making slaves, the larvse of ichneumonidse feeding within the live bodies of caterpillars, not...vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die." And here Darwin strikes one of his truest and most helpful notes. It is far more satisfactory to contemplate... | |
 | Wathen Mark Wilks Call - 1891 - 318 pages
...of " the young cuckoo ejecting its foster-brothers, ants making slaves, the larvae of ichneumonidae feeding within the live bodies of caterpillars," not...vary ; let the strongest live and the weakest die." 1 The Origin of Species, pp. 22S-234. I CHAPTER X. SPECIAL ADAPTATION IN PROVISIONS OF INANIMATE NATURE—... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1896 - 408 pages
...Molothrus bonariensis that he quotes my words, and asks, " Must we consider these habits, not as especially endowed or created instincts, but as small consequences of one general law, namely, transition ? " Various birds, as has already been remarked, occasionally lay their eggs in... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1896 - 406 pages
...Molothrus bonariensis that he quotes my words, and asks, " Must we consider these habits, not as especially endowed or created instincts, but as small consequences of one general law, namely, transition ? " Various birds, as has already been remarked, occasionally lay their eggs in... | |
 | 1902 - 708 pages
...instincts as the young cuckoo ejecting its foster-brothers, ants making slaves, the larvae of ichneumonidae feeding within the live bodies of caterpillars, not...vary; let the strongest live and the weakest die." Or, again, the closing words of the chapter on the "Struggle for Existence" : "When we reflect on this... | |
 | George Winston Reid - 1905 - 202 pages
...among the mighty quadrupeds which then covered the earth, to contest the supremacy." * There has been " one general law leading to the advancement of all...vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die. . . . By the theory of natural selection all living species have been connected with the parentspecies... | |
 | John Gerard - 1906 - 144 pages
...be a logical deduction, but to my imagination it is far more satisfactory to look at such instincts not as specially endowed or created instincts, but...vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die." How this idea is worked out is not very easy to explain, for, with all desire to understand the expositions... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1909 - 584 pages
...Molothrus bonariensis that he quotes my words, and asks, "Must we consider these habite, not as especially endowed or created instincts, but as small consequences of one general law, namely, transition?" Various birds, as has already been remarked, occasionally lay their eggs in the... | |
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... one general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die. 
