 It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving, and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever...  The Maritime Monthly - Page 4811873Full view - About this book
 | 1861 - 716 pages
...endowed with the highest attributes of wisdom and omnipotence. Here is its apotheosis : It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing throughout the world every variation, even the sfightest ; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly... | |
 | 1861 - 1148 pages
...extent of endowing Nature with creative self-activity. Darwin puts this in so many words, when he says that " Natural Selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing,...rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good ; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers, at the... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1861 - 992 pages
...extent of endowing Nature with creative self-activity. Darwin puts this in so many words, when he says that " Natural Selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing,...variation, even the slightest ; rejecting that which is had, preserving and adding up all that is good ; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever... | |
 | 1871 - 878 pages
...Providences. If, then, that should be true which Mr. Darwin writes — "It may be metaphori-j cally said that natural selection is daily | and hourly scrutinizing...incessantly working whenever and wherever opportunity otters at the improvement of every organic being," — if that, I say, I were proven to be true, ought... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1316 pages
...more penetrating. Nothingescapes her keen eye. " Natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising throughout the world every variation, even the slightest...rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good, silently and insensibly working, wherever and whenever opportunity offers, at the... | |
 | 1860 - 656 pages
...? " It may be said," answers the author, " that Natural Selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest...rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good ; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers, at the... | |
 | 1861 - 824 pages
...Can we wonder that nature's productions should be far truer in character than man's? "It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing...rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good ; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers, at the... | |
 | 1861 - 716 pages
...endowed with the highest attributes of wisdom and omnipotence. Here is its apotheosis : It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing...rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good ; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers, at the... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1861 - 470 pages
...of far higher workmanship ? It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest...rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good ; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers, at the... | |
 | John Duns - 1863 - 650 pages
...is thus introduced : — " It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest....rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good ; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers, at the... | |
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