 | John Phillips - Life - 1860 - 280 pages
...whole world. Hence we may look with some confidence to a secure future of equally inappreciable length. And as natural selection works solely by and for the...endowments will tend to progress toward perfection. 'It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds... | |
 | 1860 - 982 pages
...world. Hence, we may look with some confidence to a secure future of equally inappreciable length. And as Natural Selection works solely by and for the...endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.' Yes, an unbroken, sure, though slow, living progress towards animal perfectibility is a delightful... | |
 | Geology - 1860 - 390 pages
...Hence we may look forward with some confidence to a secure future of equally inappreciable length. And as natural selection works solely by and for the...corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection." These are the deliberate, serious assertions of the author. We can do nothing... | |
 | Charles Dickens - English literature - 1860 - 638 pages
...the larger and dominant groups, which will ultimately prevail and procreate new and dominant species. And as Natural Selection works solely by and for the...each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tenc to progress towards perfection. Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the mosl... | |
 | 1860 - 966 pages
...confidence to a secure future of eqnally inappreciable length. And as natural selection works solely l'y and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection."f And what of our aspirations after a glorious immortality ? ^Tiat of that wondrous... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1861 - 470 pages
...whole world. Hence we may look with some confidence to a secure future of equally inappreciable length. And as natural selection works solely by and for the...corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection. It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of... | |
 | Gilbert Rorison - Evolution - 1861 - 192 pages
...futurity. . . Hence we may look with some confidence to a secure future of equally inappreciable length. And as Natural Selection works solely by and for the...corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection." — Darwin, p. 489. "I have reason to believe that one great authority, Sir C.... | |
 | Natural history - 1861 - 562 pages
...some confidence to a secure future of equally inappreciable length ; and, as natural selection acts solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection." We must confess these passages pain us, because we believe their thoughtful author... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1864 - 472 pages
...whole world. Hence we may look with eome confidence to a secure future of equally inappreciable length. And as natural selection works solely by and for the...corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection. It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of... | |
 | Natural history - 1869 - 488 pages
...whole world. Hence we may look with some confidence to a secure future of equally inappreciable length. And as natural selection works solely by and for the...corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection." — ' Origin of Species,' p. 489. I select this from a mullitude of parallel passages,... | |
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Hence we may look with some confidence to a secure future of great length. And as natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection. 
