 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...  Darwinism and Design; Or, Creation by Evolution - Page 84by George St. Clair - 1873 - 259 pagesFull view - About this book
 | YOGI RAMACHARAKA - 1908
...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...Man selects only for his own good ; Nature only for the good of the being which she tends. Every selected character is fully exercised by her, as is implied... | |
 | Francis Rolt-Wheeler - 1909 - 328 pages
...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...tends. Every selected character is fully exercised by her, as is implied by the fact of their selection. Man keeps the natives of many climates in the... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1909 - 584 pages
...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...tends. Every selected character is fully exercised by her, as is implied by the fact of their selection. Man keeps the natives of many climates in the... | |
 | Joseph Lane Hancock - 1911 - 506 pages
...external and visible characters. Nature cares nothing for appearances, except in so far as they act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional...nature only for that of the being which she tends. Man keeps the natives of many climates in the same country — he feeds the long and short beaked pigeon... | |
 | Birger Palm - 1911 - 200 pages
...inheritance, any selected variety will tend to propagate its new form (Origin of Species, Introd.). Man selects only for his own good; Nature only for...tends. Every selected character is fully exercised by her (ib., p. 76). The baron got the worst of some disputed question (Nickleby). The compound rise... | |
 | Dukinfield Henry Scott - 1911 - 264 pages
...fine wool in sheep, size and flavour in fruit, or beauty of colour in flowers. "Man," said Darwin, "selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends" (ibid., p. 65). "If it profit a plant to have its seeds more and more widely disseminated by the wind,... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace, Sir James Marchant - 1916 - 352 pages
...misunderstood, and apparently always will be. Referring to your book, I find such expressions as " Man selects only for his own good; Nature only for that of the being which she tends." This, it seems, will always be misunderstood; but if you had said, "Man selects only for hut own good... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace, Sir James Marchant - 1916 - 564 pages
...is misunderstood, and apparently always will be. Referring to your book, I find such expressions as "Man selects only for his own good; Nature only for that of the being which she tends." This, it seems, will always be misunderstood; but if you had said, " Man selects only for his own good;... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace, Sir James Marchant - 1916 - 530 pages
...misunderstood, and apparently always will be. Referring to your book, I find such expressions as " Man selects only for his own good; Nature only for that of the being which she tends." This, it seems, will always be misunderstood; but if you had said, " Man selects only for his own good;... | |
 | 1921 - 560 pages
...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...tends. Every selected character is fully exercised by her, as is implied by the fact of their selection. Man keeps the natives of many climates in the... | |
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