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" It may metaphorically be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, throughout the world, the slightest variations; rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that are good; silently and insensibly working, whenever... "
The Soul: A Study and an Argument - Page 119
by David Syme - 1903 - 234 pages
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 196

1902 - 642 pages
...the slightest variations ; rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that are good ; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever...relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life. We see nothing of those slow changes in progress until the hand of time has marked the lapse of ages,...
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Evolution in Economics: An Analysis of Social Problems

James Arthur Ambler - 1809 - 616 pages
...all th.it are good, silently and insensibly working, .whenever and jrlierever^opjgorJtUnity sffSfSf» at the "improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life. It may act en characters which we are apt to consider of trifling importance, and its accumulation...
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The Methodist Quarterly Review, Volume 43

1861 - 716 pages
...variation, even the sfightest ; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever...each organic being in relation to its organic and morganic conditions of life. We see nothing of these slow changes in progress until the hand of time...
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The New Englander, Volumes 19-20

1861 - 1148 pages
...variation, even the slightest ; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good ; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever...relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life."f What then is the Creator birt an Emersonian Fate : " Let us build altars," chants the high...
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The North British Review, Volumes 32-33

1860 - 656 pages
...variation, even the slightest ; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good ; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever...relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life. We see nothing of these slow changes in progress, until the hand of time has marked the long lapse...
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The Geologist: A Popular Monthly Magazine of Geology, Volume 1

1860 - 532 pages
...the slightest ; rejecting that which is bad, preserving that which is good; silently and invisibly working whenever and wherever opportunity offers,...relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life. We see nothing of these slow changes in progress until the hand of time has marked the lapse of ages,...
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Methodist Magazine and Quarterly Review, Volume 13; Volume 21; Volume 43

1861 - 716 pages
...variation, even the slightest ; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good ; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever...relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life. We see nothing of these slow changes in progress until the hand of tune has marked the long lapse of...
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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection; Or, The Preservation ...

Charles Darwin - 1861 - 470 pages
...variation, even the slightest ; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good ; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever...relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life. We see nothing of these slow changes in progress, until the hand of time has marked the long lapse...
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The Theological and Literary Journal, Volume 13

1861 - 824 pages
...variation, even the slightest, rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good ; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers, at the improvement of every organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life. We see nothing of...
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Biblical natural science, Volume 1

John Duns - 1863 - 650 pages
...variation, even the slightest. ; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good ; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever...relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life. We see nothing of these slow changes in progress, until the hand of time has marked the long lapse...
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