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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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Social Progress and the Darwinian Theory: A Study of Force as a Factor in ...

George William Nasmyth - 1916 - 458 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.2 He then proceeds to illustrate the term in words which leave no doubt that it includes as...
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Cotton as a World Power: A Study in the Economic Interpretation of History

James Augustin Brown Scherer - 1916 - 474 pages
...term in a large and metaphorical sense, including dependence of one being on another, and including not only the life of the individual, but success in leaving progeny." 7 The social and political greed of men has led to the abortive seizure of the half-truth that suited...
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The Study of Animal Life

John Arthur Thomson - 1917 - 504 pages
...large and metaphorical sense, including the dependence of one being on another, and including (which is more important) not only the life of the individual, but success in leaving progeny." He also acknowledged the importance of mutual aid, sociability, and sympathy among animals, and clearly...
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A Text-book of biology for students in general, medical and technical courses

William Martin Smallwood - 1918 - 342 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. But a plant in the edge of a desert is said to struggle for life against the drought, though more properly it should...
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A Text-book of Biology for Students in General, Medical and Technical Courses

William Martin Smallwood - 1918 - 332 pages
...larger and metamorphical 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 North American Review, Volume 207

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1918 - 976 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." This is, indeed, far from the present-day scientific philosophy so passionately invoked by the German...
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Heredity and Evolution in Plants

Charles Stuart Gager - 1920 - 292 pages
...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,...shall get food and live. But a plant on the edge of a desert is said to struggle for life against the drought, though more properly it should be said to...
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The System of Animate Nature: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in ..., Volume 1

John Arthur Thomson - 1920 - 372 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 " (Origin of Species, p. 50). This does not coincide with the view of some naturalists that the struggle...
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Symbiosis: A Socio-physiological Study of Evolution

Hermann Reinheimer - 1920 - 318 pages
...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. The mistletoe is dependent on the apple and a few other trees, but can only in a far-fetched sense...
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Readings in evolution, genetics, and eugenics

1921 - 560 pages
...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,...shall get food and live. But a plant on the edge of a desert is said to struggle for life against the drought, though more properly it should be said to...
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