...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...

...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...

...same place as we did when we started, as regards any knowledge of what is the " origin of species." " In the literal sense of the word, no doubt, natural selection is a false term." Then why use it when another, and, by Mr. Darwin's own admission, a " more accurate " one is to hand...

...arise and are beneficial -to the being under its conditions of life. No one objects to agriculturists speaking of the potent effects of man's 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...

...arise and are beneficial to the being under its conditions of life. No one objects to agriculturists speaking of the potent effects of man's 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...

...variations as arise and are beneficial to the being under its conditions of life. . . . Others have objected that as plants have no volition, natural selection...of the elective affinities of the various elements ? . . . It has been said that I speak of natural selection as an active power or Deity ; but who objects...

...arise and are beneficial to the being under its conditions of life. No one objects to agriculturists speaking of the potent effects of man's selection...ever objected to chemists speaking of the elective affinitie's of the various laments? — and yet an acid cannot strictly be said to elect the base with...

...arise and are beneficial to the being under its conditions of life. No one objects to agriculturists speaking of the potent effects of man's selection;...speaking of the elective affinities of the various elements?—and yet an acid cannot strictly be said to elect the base with which it in preference combines....

...same place as we did when we started, as regards any knowledge of what is the " origin of species.'* " In the literal sense of the word, no doubt, natural selection is a false term." Then why use it when another, and, by Mr. Darwin's own admission, a " more accurate " one is to hand...

...preservation of such variations as arise and are beneficial to the being under its conditions of life. . . . Others have objected that the term selection implies...false term; but who ever objected to chemists speaking o£ the elective affinities of the various elements? — and yet an acid cannot strictly be said to...