...every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good ; silently and insensibly working, whenever and...to its organic and inorganic conditions of life," — if this, I say, were proved to be true, ought God's care, God's providence, to seem less or more...

...every variation, even the slightest ; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good, silently and insensibly working whenever and...to its organic and inorganic conditions of life." He also says, " The term general good may be defined as the means by which the greatest possible number...

...every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good ; silently and insensibly working, whenever and...to its organic and inorganic conditions of life,' — if this, I say, were proved to be true, ought God's care and God's providence to seem less or more...

...every variation, even the slightest, rejecting all that is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good, silently and insensibly working, whenever and...in progress until the hand of time has marked the long lapse of ages, and then so imperfect is our view into long past geological ages that we only see...

...world the slightest variations, rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that are good ; silently and insensibly working, whenever and...relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life" ; our theory of ethics must be modified accordingly. If (what, after all, has passed into a commonplace)...

...every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and...to its organic and inorganic conditions of life." In the struggle for existence, always going on, it is evident that individuals having the least advantage...

...movement of nature. We need not be surprised when even minds of a different order can " see nothing of the slow changes in progress until the hand of time has...lapse of ages ; and then so imperfect is our view into long past geological ages, that we see only that the forms of life are now different from what they...

...world, the slightest variations ; rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that are good ; silently and insensibly working, whenever and...lapse of ages, and then so imperfect is our view into long- past geological ages, that we see only that the forms of life are now different from what they...

...world, the slightest variations, rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that are good, silently and insensibly working, whenever and...relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life. It may operate on characters which we are apt to consider of very trifling importance, and its accumulation...

...world, the slightest variations ; rejecting those that are bad , preserving and adding up all that are good ; silently and insensibly working, whenever and...relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life."1) From the nature of the case, natural selection works only for the good of the organism ; it...