 | 1860 - 600 pages
...stock results. " What limits," asks the author, "can be put to this power acting during long ages, ' rigidly scrutinizing the whole constitution, structure...creature — favoring the good, and rejecting the ' bad ?" After reading Mr. Darwin's chapter on the subject we think we may assert that he who would definitely... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1861 - 470 pages
...nature fail in selecting variations useful, under changing conditions of life, to her living products ? What limit can be put to this power, acting during long ages and rigidly scrutinising the whole constitution, structure, and habits of each creature, — favouring the good... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1864 - 472 pages
...nature fail in selecting variations useful, under changing conditions of life, to her living products ? What limit can be put to this power, acting during long ages and rigidly scrutinising the whole constitution, structure, and habits of each creature, — favouring the good... | |
 | Henry A. DuBois - 1866 - 112 pages
...under then- excessively complex relations of life, would be preserved, accumulated, and inherited? What limit can be put to this power, acting during...creature, favoring the good and rejecting the bad ? I can see no limit to this power," &c. — p. 407. " If it profit a plant to have its seeds more and more... | |
 | 1866 - 694 pages
...inherited? What limit can we put to this power, acting during long ages, and rigidly tern tinizing the whole constitution, structure, and habits of each...creature, favoring the good and rejecting the bad 1 I can see no limit to this power," &c. — p. 407. " If it profit a plant to have its seeds more... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1873 - 492 pages
...why, under changing and complex conditions of life, should not variations useful to nature's living products often arise, and be preserved or selected...to this power, acting during long ages and rigidly scrutinising the whole constitution, structure, and habits of each creature,—favouring the good and... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1875 - 504 pages
...why, under changing and complex conditions of life, should not variations useful to nature's living products often arise, and be preserved or selected...to this power, acting during long ages and rigidly scrutinising the whole constitution, structure, and habits of each creature, — favouring the good... | |
 | T Warren O'Neill - 1880 - 482 pages
...variations, use~ ful to nature's living products, often arise and be preserved and selected?" Darwin asks, "What limit can be put to this power, acting during...— favoring the good and rejecting the bad?" "I can see no limit to this power, in slowly and beautifully adapting each form to the most complex relations... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1882 - 492 pages
...not variations useful to nature's living products often arise, and be preserved or selected ? Wta; limit can be put to this power, acting during long ages and rigidly scrutinising the whole constitution, structure, and habits of each creature, — favouring the good... | |
 | Robert Patterson - 1885 - 324 pages
...conditions of life, should not variations useful to nature's living products often arise and be preserved as selected? What limit can be put to this power, acting...— favoring the good, and rejecting the bad ? I can see no limit to this power in slowly and beautifully adapting each form to the most complex conditions... | |
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What limit can be put to this power, acting during long ages and rigidly scrutinising the whole constitution, structure, and habits of each creature, — favouring the good and rejecting the bad? I can see no limit to this power, in slowly and beautifully... 
