 | Charles Darwin - 1866 - 668 pages
...selection implies conscious choice in the animals which become modified ; and it has even been urged that, as plants have no volition, natural selection...sense of the word, no doubt, natural selection is a misnomer ; but who ever objected to chemists speaking of the elective affinities of the various elements... | |
 | 1867 - 510 pages
...selection implies conscious choice in the animals which become modified ; and it has even been urged that, as plants have no volition, natural selection...sense of the word, no doubt, natural selection is a misnomer ; but whoever objected to chemists speaking of the elective affinities of the various elements... | |
 | John R. Leifchild - 1872 - 578 pages
...be disposed to disown it as an active power or Deity, is uncertain. Truly has the author confessed " in the literal sense of the word, no doubt, natural selection is a false term." One thing, however, is apparent, and that is that Mr. Darwin now materially limits the influence of... | |
 | Charles Hodge - 1874 - 190 pages
...of gravity as ruling the movements of the planet?" He admits that in the literal sense of the words, natural selection is a false term ; but " who ever...to chemists, speaking of the elective affinities of various elements ? — and yet an acid cannot strictly be said to elect the base with which it in preference... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1875 - 504 pages
...(election implies conscious choice in the animals which become modified ; and it has even been urged that, as plants have no volition, natural selection...of the elective affinities of the various elements ? — and yet an acid cannot strictly bo said to elect the base with which it in preference combines.... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1879 - 436 pages
...accurate expression when a more accurate one is ready to his hand. Hence, when Mr. Darwin continues, " Who ever objected to chemists speaking of the elective affinities of the various elements ? and yet an acid cannot strictly be said to elect the base with which it by preference combines,"... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1879 - 402 pages
...the term implies conscious choice in the animals which become modified, and it has been even urged that as plants have no volition, natural selection is not applicable to them ! " This — unfortunately — must have been the objection of a slovenly, or wilfully misapprehending... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1882 - 494 pages
...selection implies conscious choice in the animals which become modified ; and it has even been urged that, as plants have no volition, natural selection...to chemists speaking of the elective affinities of tho various elements ? — and yet an acid cannot strictly be said to elect the base with which it... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1884 - 396 pages
...selection implies conscious choice in the animals which become modified ; and it has even been urged that, as plants have no volition, natural selection...of the elective affinities of the various elements ? — and yet an acid can not strictly be said to elect the base with which it in preference combines.... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1884 - 494 pages
...selection implies conscious choice in the animals which become modified; and it has even been urged that, as plants have no volition, natural selection...ever objected to chemists speaking of the elective affmities of the various elements ? — and yet an acid cannot strictly be said to elect the base with... | |
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In the literal sense of the word, no doubt, natural selection is a false term: but who ever objected to chemists speaking of the elective affinities of the various elements? 
