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 119by David Syme - 1903 - 234 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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