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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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Footnotes to Evolution: A Series of Popular Addresses on the Evolution of Life

David Starr Jordan - 1898 - 448 pages
...another, and including (which The struggle for .s more i rtant) not onl the life of existence. . r ' ' . the individual, but success in leaving progeny. Two...shall get food and live. But a plant on the edge of a desert is said to struggle for life against the drouth, though more properly it should be said to...
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Footnotes to Evolution: A Series of Popular Addresses on the Evolution of Life

David Starr Jordan - 1898 - 454 pages
...The struggle for u more i rtant) not on t the life of existence. ...... the individual, but success m leaving progeny. Two canine animals, in a time of...shall get food and live. But a plant on the edge of a desert is said to struggle for life against the drouth, though more properly it should be said to...
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The Arena, Volume 19

1898 - 908 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,...success in leaving progeny. Two canine animals, in time of dearth, may be truly said to struggle with each other which shall get food and live. But a...
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The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature ...: A Biographical ..., Volume 7

John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 586 pages
...important) not only the life of the individual, but success in leaving progeny. Two canine animals, in time of dearth, may be truly said to struggle with each other which shall get food and live. Hut a plant on the edge of a desert is said to struggle for life against the drought, though more properly...
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The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature: A Biographical and ...

John Clark Ridpath - 1899 - 544 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,...success in leaving progeny. Two canine animals, in time of dearth, may be truly said to struggle with each other which shall get food and live. But a...
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The Science of Life: An Outline of the History and Biology and Its Recent ...

John Arthur Thomson - 1899 - 246 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 ". Similarly Mr. Wallace says, "The struggle for existence, under which plants and animals have been...
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The Foundations of Zoölogy

William Keith Brooks - 1899 - 356 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. ... A plant which annually produces a thousand seeds, of which on an average only one comes to maturity,...
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The Science of Life: An Outline of the History and Biology and Its Recent ...

John Arthur Thomson - 1899 - 434 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 ". Similarly Mr. Wallace says, "The struggle for existence, under which plants and animals have been...
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Ethical Democracy: Essays in Social Dynamics

Stanton Coit - 1900 - 400 pages
...struggle for existence " suggests a battle, the phrase, as used technically by Darwin, is taken by him " in a large and metaphorical sense, including dependence...the individual, but success in leaving progeny."* On the theory of natural selection, the helplessness of infancy is a main factor in producing stable...
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Aberdeen University Studies, Issue 70

1915 - 294 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." It may be that the struggle is most severe between members of the same or nearly related species, though...
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