 Seeing that individual differences of the same kind perpetually recur, this can hardly be considered as an unwarrantable assumption. But whether it is true, we can judge only by seeing how far the hypothesis accords with and explains the general phenomena...  The Science-history of the Universe - Page 199edited by - 1909Full view - About this book
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1866 - 668 pages
...variation should be thus indefinitely prolonged is an assumption, the truth of which must be judged of by how far the hypothesis accords with and explains the...limited quantity is likewise a simple assumption. Although natural selection can act only through and for the good of each being, yet characters and... | |
 | Robert Mackenzie Beverley - Evolution - 1867 - 598 pages
...prolonged (ie that they should become species) is an assumption, the truth of which must be judged of by how far the hypothesis accords with and explains the general phenomena of Nature ' (89). Now this process of variations becoming what Mr Darwin calls ' good species,' is an assumption... | |
 | Robert Mackenzie Beverley - Evolution - 1867 - 406 pages
...prolonged (ie that they should become species) is an assumption, the truth of which must be judged of by how far the hypothesis accords with and explains the general phenomena of Nature' (89). Now this process of variations becoming what Mr Darwin calls ' good species,' is an assumption... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1873 - 492 pages
...differences of the same favourable nature as before; and these must be again preserved, aud so onwards step by step. Seeing that individual differences of...limited quantity is likewise a simple assumption. Although natural selection can act only through and for the good of each being, yet characters and... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1875 - 504 pages
...differences of tho same favourable nature as before ; and these must be again preserved, aud so onwards step by step. Seeing that individual differences of...limited quantity is likewise a simple assumption. Although natural selection can act only through and for the good of each being, yet characters and... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1882 - 494 pages
...differences of the same favourable nature as before ; and these must be again preserved, and so onwards step by step. Seeing that individual differences of...explains the general phenomena of nature. On the other baud, the ordinary belief that the amount of possible variation is a strictly limited quantity is likewise... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1884 - 494 pages
...onwards step by step. Seeing that individual differences of the same kind perpetually recur, this call hardly be considered as an unwarrantable assumption....explains the general phenomena of nature. On the other band, the ordinary belief that the amount of possible variation is a strictly limited quantity is likewise... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1896 - 406 pages
...differences of the same favourable nature as before ; and these must be again preserved, and so onwards step by step. Seeing that individual differences of...limited quantity is likewise a simple assumption. Although natural selection can act only through and for the good of each being, yet characters and... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Science - 1896 - 408 pages
...differences of the same favourable nature as before ; and these must be again preserved, and so onwards step by step. Seeing that individual differences of...limited quantity is likewise a simple assumption. Although natural selection can act only through and for the good of each being, yet characters and... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Anthologies - 1897 - 492 pages
...exercises each selected character in some peculiar and fitting manner; he feeds a long and a short-beaked pigeon on the same food; he does not exercise a long-backed...limited quantity, is likewise a simple assumption. Although Natural Selection can act only through and for the good of each being, yet characters and... | |
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