...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 of constitutional...Nature only for that of the being which she tends.... Although natural selection can act only through and for the good of each being, yet characters and...

...appearances, except in so far as they are useful to any being. She can act on 230 CLASSICS OF MODERN SCIENCE 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...

...Zola, Le Roman experimental, pp. 33-5. 32 Hardy, Tess, p. 40. 33 Darwin, The Origin of Species, p. 132: 'Man selects only for his own good; Nature only for that of the being which she tends.' 34 Hardy, Tess, p. 114. 35 Zola, Roman experimental, p. 49. Bernard discusses the distinction between...

...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 of constitutional difference, on the whole machinery of life. . . . How fleeting are the wishes and efforts of man! how short his time! and consequently how poor...

..."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 of constitutional difference, on the whole machinery of life" (Origin: 83). "Natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation,...

...— select in person (Darwin 1872:60; see Barnett 1983:38). 'Man', he continues in the same passage, 'selects only for his own good; Nature only for that of the being which she tends.' In other words, there is no plan in nature beyond those uniquely embodied in each and every one of...

...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 of constitutional...tends. Every selected character is fully exercised by her; and the being is placed under well-suited conditions of life. Man keeps the natives of many...

...if I may be allowed to personify the natural preservation or survival of the fittest, . . . can act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional...Nature only for that of the being which she tends. But he also writes: It has been said that I speak of natural selection as an active power or Deity;...

...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 of constitutional...Nature only for that of the being which she tends ... It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, throughout the world, every...

...natural selection altruistically looked to the welfare of the creatures selected. As Darwin put it: "Man selects only for his own good; Nature only for that of the being which she tends." 53 He concluded that natural selection therefore insured progressive evolution: "as natural selection...