| James Samuelson, Sir William Crookes - 1884 - 798 pages
...indications of theistic belief. And, indeed, " we may console ourselves " for " the happy survive " (p. 61) " from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows " (p.... | |
| Robert Patterson - 1885 - 324 pages
...righteousness, is the supreme contradiction to the climax of bathos with which Mr. Darwin concludes his book: "Thus from the war of nature, from famine and death,...conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, necessarily follows." * It is a very unhappy introduction of Darwinism to the world, that its author... | |
| Grant Allen - 1885 - 226 pages
...direct action of the conditions of life, and from use and disuse ; a Ratio of Increase, so high aa to lead to a Struggle for Life, and as a consequence...entailing Divergence of Character, and the Extinction of the less improved forms. Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1134 pages
...variability from the indirect and direct action of the conditions of life, and from use and disuse ; a ratio e life and Hayings aa a consequence to natural selection, entailing divergence of character and the extinction of less-improved... | |
| William Baker - 1892 - 156 pages
...To represent these in as impalpable, imperceptible shape as possible, he borrowed the term breathe. Thus, from the war of Nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There... | |
| James Bonar - 1893 - 440 pages
...Variability from the indirect and direct action of the conditions of life, and from use and disuse, a Ratio of Increase so high as to lead to a Struggle for Life,...entailing Divergence of Character and the Extinction of less improved forms. Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted 1 This statement... | |
| James Bonar - 1893 - 438 pages
...Variability from the indirect and direct action of the conditions of life, and from use and disuse, a Ratio of Increase so high as to lead to a Struggle for Life,...entailing Divergence of Character and the Extinction of less improved forms. Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted 1 This statement... | |
| James Bonar - 1893 - 440 pages
...consequence to Natural Selection, entailing Divergence of Character and the Extinction of less improved forms. Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted 1 This statement is taken in substance from Mr. AR Wallace's Dancinism, pp. 10, seq. * Origin of Species,... | |
| Henry Shaler Williams - 1895 - 436 pages
...indirect and direct action of the conditions of life, and from use and disuse ; a ratio of inerease so high as to lead to a struggle for life, and, as...consequence, to natural selection, entailing divergence of characters, and the extinction of less improved forms. There is a grandeur in this view of life, with... | |
| J. Villin Marmery - 1895 - 444 pages
...the less improved forms. Thus from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted objects which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows." If the belief of an efficient cause, instead of a final cause, should offend our moral sense, we should... | |
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