 | YOGI RAMACHARAKA - 1908
...evolutionists admit "mind" was evolved. It will be as. well to quote Darwin himself on this point. He says : "As man can produce, and certainly has produced, a...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,... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1909 - 584 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... | |
 | Francis Rolt-Wheeler - 1909 - 328 pages
...continued under the same conditions of life and profited by similar means of subsistence and defense. "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... | |
 | James R. Moore - 1981 - 536 pages
...1859 as On the Origin of Species, Darwin continued to depersonalise his demiurge in the first edition. As man can produce and certainly has produced a great...methodical and unconscious means of selection, what may not nature effect? Man can act only on external and visible characters: nature cares nothing for appearances,... | |
 | Robert Maxwell Young - 1971 - 372 pages
...man, apply in nature? I think that we shall see that it can act most effectually." He goes on to say. "As man can produce and certainly has produced a great...methodical and unconscious means of selection, what may not nature effect?" After the analogy has been made, natural selection is itself described in surprisingly... | |
 | Charles Darwin, Frederick Burkhardt - 1985 - 726 pages
...these as suggested by Holland but, in the third and subsequent editions, added the qualifying remark: '(if I may be allowed thus to personify the natural...preservation of varying and favoured individuals during the struggle for existence)' (Origin 3d ed., p. 87). See Peckham ed. 1959, p. 167. 3 H. Holland 1852, pp.... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1993 - 836 pages
...six lines from bottom, after word "nature," insert parenthesis — reading the whole sentence thus: Man can act only on external and visible characters: nature (if I may be allowed for brevity-sake to personify the natural preservation of favoured individuals during the struggle... | |
 | Alan W. Bellringer, C. B. Jones - 1988 - 264 pages
...so perfectly adapted to each other and to the physical conditions under which they live, that none of them could anyhow be improved; for in all countries,...methodical and unconscious means of selection, what may not nature effect? Man can act only on external and visible characters : Nature cares nothing for appearances,... | |
 | Marcello Pera - 1994 - 272 pages
...those of Art. 39 An argument along the same lines can be found in chapter 4 where Darwin writes: (2.2) As man can produce and certainly has produced a great...methodical and unconscious means of selection, what may not nature effect? Man can act only on external and visible characters: nature cares nothing for appearances,... | |
 | Michael P. Murphy, Luke A. J. O'Neill - 1997 - 212 pages
...wrought changes over centuries, think what a ruthlessly efficient nature can do in extrapolated vastness: As man can produce and certainly has produced a great...methodical and unconscious means of selection, what may not nature effect? Man can act only on external and visible characters: nature cares nothing for appearances... | |
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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... 
