 | 1921 - 560 pages
...accumulated by Nature during whole geological periods! Can we wonder, then, that Nature's productions should be far " truer " in character than man's productions;...be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, the slightest variations; rejecting those that are bad, preserving... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1924 - 426 pages
...the natural preservation or survival of the fittest." And again, at the bottom of the same page, " It may metaphorically be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing throughout the world the slightest variations."2 It may be metaphorically said 1 Nature,... | |
 | Sir William Cecil Dampier Dampier, Margaret Dampier Dampier - 1924 - 312 pages
...and structures which we are apt to consider as of very trifling importance, may be thus acted It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest, rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that... | |
 | Samuel Jackson Holmes - 1926 - 476 pages
...protective resemblance as the leaf butterfly might finally have been evolved. To quote Mr. Darwin : It may metaphorically be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing throughout the world, the slightest variations; rejecting those that are bad, preserving... | |
 | Samuel Jackson Holmes - 1926 - 470 pages
...protective resemblance as the leaf butterfly might finally have been evolved. To quote Mr. Darwin: It may metaphorically be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing throughout the world, the slightest variations; rejecting those that are bad, preserving... | |
 | James R. Moore - 1981 - 536 pages
...accumulated by nature during whole geological periods. Can we wonder, then, that nature's productions should be far 'truer' in character than man's productions; that they should be inf1nitely better adapted to the most complex conditions of life, and should plainly bear the stamp... | |
 | Alan W. Bellringer, C. B. Jones - 1988 - 264 pages
...accumulated by Nature during whole geological periods ! Can we wonder then, that nature's productions should be far "truer" in character than man's productions...plainly bear the stamp of far higher workmanship? . . . The affinities of all the beings of the same class have sometimes been represented by a great... | |
 | George Levine - 1991 - 334 pages
...constitutional difference" (p. 132). The extension of this figure sounds like natural theology: "It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that... | |
 | Ilse Nina Bulhof - 1992 - 224 pages
...to circumstances; they are simply better made: Can we wonder, then, that Nature's productions should be far 'truer' in character than man's productions,...life and should plainly bear the stamp of far higher workmanship?(90) When we think of people and their 'inside' we are, in contrast to animals, not referring... | |
 | David Owain Maurice Charles - 1992 - 500 pages
...his ends. 12 Far higher than WilIn'S, that is: 'Can we wonder, then, that nature's productions should be far "truer" in character than man's productions;...conditions of life, and should plainly bear the stamp . . .?' (Thc Origin of Species, in The Essential Darwin, ed. Mark Ridely (London: Allen and Unwin,... | |
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Nature's productions should be far 'truer' in character than man's productions; that they should be infinitely better adapted to the most complex conditions of life, and should plainly bear the stamp of far higher workmanship? 
