| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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