 | Patrick Matthew - 1831 - 422 pages
...in all the varieties of her offspring, a prolific power much beyond (in many cases a thousandfold) what is necessary to fill up the vacancies caused...power of occupancy than any other kind ; the weaker, less circumstance-suited, being prematurely destroyed. This principle is in -*>nstant action, it regulates... | |
 | Francis Buchanan White White - 1872 - 330 pages
...in all the varieties of her offspring, a prolific power much beyond (in many cases a thousandfold) what is necessary to fill up the vacancies caused...pre-occupied, it is only the hardier, more robust, better-suited-to-circumstance individuals, who are able to struggle forward to maturity ; these inhabiting... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1879 - 436 pages
...circumstance, might in several generations even become distinct species, incapable of correproduction. "The self-regulating adaptive disposition of organized...occupancy than any other kind; the weaker and less circumstancesuited being prematurely destroyed. This principle is in constant action; it regulates... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1879 - 956 pages
...Lamarck, Darwin, and Mr. Butler himself. The following quotations illustrate Mr. Matthews' s views : — " As the field of existence is limited and preoccupied, it is only the hardier, more robust, better-suited-to-circumstance individuals who are able to struggle forward to maturity, these inhabiting... | |
 | Grant Allen - 1885 - 226 pages
...offspring a prolific power much beyond (in many cases a thousandfold) what is necessary to fill up tho vacancies caused by senile decay. As the field of...preoccupied, it is only the hardier, more robust, better-suited-to-circumstance individuals, who are able to struggle forward to maturity, these inhabiting... | |
 | Edward Clodd - 1897 - 312 pages
...existence is limited and pre-occupied, it is only the hardier, more robust, better-suited-tocircumstance individuals, who are able to struggle forward to maturity,...occupancy than any other kind; the weaker and less circumstance-suited being prematurely destroyed. This principle is in constant action; it regulates... | |
 | Edward Clodd - 1897 - 284 pages
...has in all the varieties of her offspring a prolific power much beyond (in many cases a thousandfold) what is necessary to fill up the vacancies caused...preoccupied, it is only the hardier, more robust, bettersuited -to -circumstance individuals, who are able to struggle forward to maturity, these inhabiting... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1911 - 702 pages
...circumstance, might in several generations even become distinct species, incapable of correprod UP) ion. " The self-regulating adaptive disposition of organized...inhabiting only the situations to which they have tuperior adaptation and greater po\t>cr of oceupnney than any other kind ; the weaker and less circumstancesuited... | |
 | Society of American Foresters - 1912 - 682 pages
...prolific power much beyond (in many cases a thousandfold) what is necessary to fill up the vacancies by senile decay. As the field of existence is limited...power of occupancy than any other kind, the weaker, less circumstance-suited being prematurely destroyed. This principle is in constant action; it regulates... | |
 | Society of American Foresters - 1913 - 406 pages
...prolific power much beyond (in many cases a thousandfold) what is necessary to fill up the vacancies by senile decay. As the field of existence is limited...power of occupancy than any other kind, the weaker, less circumstance-suited being prematurely destroyed. This principle is in constant action ; it regulates... | |
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The self-regulating adaptive disposition of organised life, may, in part, be traced to the extreme fecundity of Nature, who, as before stated, has, in all the varieties of her offspring, a prolific power much beyond (in many cases a thousandfold) what... 
