 | John Brown - 1881 - 232 pages
...According to this view there is a sort of force always working up to higher things. As Mr. Darwin says — "As man can produce, and certainly has produced, a great result by his methodical and conscious means of selection, what may not nature effect ? " Given time long enough and favouring circumstances,... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1884 - 396 pages
...his methodical and page 65. unconscious means of selection, what may not natural selection affect ? Man can act only on external and visible characters : Nature, if I may be allowed to personify the natural preservation or survival of the fittest, cares nothing for appearances, except... | |
 | Edward Clodd - 1888 - 284 pages
...man, but involved in the necessities of things. We may quote what Darwin says on this matter : — 'As man can produce, and certainly has produced, a...and visible characters : Nature, if I may be allowed to personify the natural preservation or survival of the fittest, cares nothing for appearances, except... | |
 | Edward Clodd - 1888 - 302 pages
...of man, but involved in the necessities of things. We may quote what Darwin says on this matter :— 'As man can produce, and certainly has produced, a...on external and visible characters : Nature, if I maybe allowed to personify the natural preservation or survival of the fittest, cares nothing for appearances,... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1896 - 408 pages
...conclude that the natives might have been modified with advantage, so as to have better resisted the intruders. As man can produce, and certainly has produced,...and visible characters : Nature, if I may be allowed to personify the natural preservation or survival of the fittest, cares nothing for appearances, except... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1896 - 406 pages
...conclude that the natives might have been modified with advantage, so as to have better resisted the intruders. As man can produce, and certainly has produced,...and visible characters : Nature, if I may be allowed to personify the natural preservation or survival of the fittest, cares nothing for appearances, except... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 494 pages
...conclude that the natives might have been modified with advantage, so as to have better resisted the intruders. As man can produce, and certainly has produced,...and visible characters; Nature, if I may be allowed to personify the natural preservation or survival of the fittest, cares nothing for appearances, except... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1902 - 238 pages
...conclude that the natives might have been modified with advantage, so as to have better resisted the intruders. As man can produce, and certainly has produced,...visible characters :' Nature, if I may be allowed to personify the natural preservation or survival of the fittest, cares nothing for appearances, except... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - 1907 - 494 pages
...conclude that the natives might have been modified with advantage, so as to have better resisted the intruders. As man can produce, and certainly has produced,...and visible characters : Nature, if I may be allowed to personify the natural preservation or survival of the fittest, cares nothing for appearances, except... | |
 | Yogi Ramacharaka, William Walker Atkinson - 1907 - 328 pages
...evolved. It will be as well to quote Darwin himself on this point. He says : "As man can produce, arid certainly has produced, a great result by his methodical...Man can act only on external and visible characters, while Nature, if I may be allowed to personify the natural preservation or survival of the fittest,... | |
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... useful to any being. She can act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional difference, on the whole machinery of life. Man selects only for his own... 
