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" And as Natural Selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection. "
The Problem of Human Life: Embracing the "evolution of Sound" and "evolution ... - Page 445
by Alexander Wilford Hall - 1880 - 512 pages
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Life on the Earth: Its Origin and Succession

John Phillips - 1860 - 262 pages
...to a secure future of equally inappreciable length. And as natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection. 'It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds...
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The American Journal of Science and Arts

1860 - 982 pages
...to a secure future of equally inappreciable length. And as Natural Selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.' Yes, an unbroken, sure, though slow, living progress towards animal perfectibility is a delightful...
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Eclectic and Congregational Review

1860 - 966 pages
...a secure future of eqnally inappreciable length. And as natural selection works solely l'y and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection."f And what of our aspirations after a glorious immortality ? ^Tiat of that wondrous...
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The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View of the ..., Volume 11

1860 - 390 pages
...to a secure future of equally inappreciable length. And as natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection." These are the deliberate, serious assertions of the author. We can do nothing...
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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection; Or, The Preservation ...

Charles Darwin - 1861 - 470 pages
...to a secure future of equally inappreciable length. And as natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection. It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of...
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The Three Barriers: Notes on Mr. Darwin's "Origin of Species."

Gilbert Rorison - 1861 - 192 pages
...to a secure future of equally inappreciable length. And as Natural Selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection." — Darwin, p. 489. "I have reason to believe that one great authority, Sir C....
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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation ...

Charles Darwin - 1864 - 472 pages
...to a secure future of equally inappreciable length. And as natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection. It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of...
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Zoologist: A Monthly Journal of Natural History

1869 - 488 pages
...to a secure future of equally inappreciable length. And as natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection." — ' Origin of Species,' p. 489. I select this from a mullitude of parallel passages,...
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Essays Contributed to the 'Quarterly Review.".

Samuel Wilberforce - 1874 - 412 pages
...to a secure future of equally inappreciable length. And as natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection.' 'There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, and having been...
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Darwinism Stated by Darwin Himself: Characteristic Passages from the ...

Charles Darwin - 1884 - 396 pages
...some confidence to a secure future of great length. And as natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection. THE GRANDEUR OF THIS VIEW OP LIFE. _ It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with...
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