 | Charles Darwin - 1909 - 544 pages
...then, that Nature's productions should be far "truer" in character than man's productions; that they should be infinitely better adapted to the most complex...plainly bear the stamp of far higher workmanship? I It may metaphorically be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, throughout... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - 1910 - 410 pages
...idea of the struggle for existence. The same idea is suggested by Darwin's extraordinary sentence : " It may metaphorically be said that natural selection...scrutinising throughout the world the slightest variations." THE OTHER SIDE OP THE STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE. — If we are right in our wide interpretation of the... | |
 | Hermann Reinheimer - 1910 - 432 pages
...it should have no difficulty in explaining the other.) When Darwin, however, tentatively suggested : "It may metaphorically be said that Natural Selection...hourly scrutinising throughout the world the slightest variation," he was clearly only stating the theological aspect — scientific formulation of which... | |
 | Joseph Lane Hancock - 1911 - 506 pages
...wonder then that nature's productions should be far truer in character than man's productions; that they should be infinitely better adapted to the most complex...plainly bear the stamp of far higher workmanship? No breeder doubts the strong tendency to inheritance. That like produces like is his fundamental belief.... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - 1911 - 270 pages
...existence The same idea is suggested by Darwin's extra ordinary sentence : " It may metaphorically b« said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising throughout the world the slightest variations." THE OTHER SIDE OP THE STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE. — If we are right in our wide interpretation of the... | |
 | Alfred Fairhurst - 1913 - 502 pages
...the preservation of variations in some way advantageous, which consequently endure." Again he says, " 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... | |
 | 1921 - 560 pages
...then, that Nature's productions should be far " truer " in character than man's productions; that they should be infinitely better adapted to the most complex...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 - 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... | |
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Can we wonder, then, that 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... 
