In conclusion, it appears that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries.
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us and I for one must be content to remain agnostic.
The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate and is sometimes equally convenient.
As for a future life every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague possibilities.
Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
The only distinct meaning of the word 'natural' is STATED, FIXED or SETTLED; since what is natural as much requires and presupposes an intelligent agent to render it so, i.e., to effect it continually...
To conclude, therefore, let no man out of a weak conceit of sobriety, or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain, that a man can search too far or be too well studied in the book of God's word, o...
I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.
Natural Selection almost inevitably causes much Extinction of the less improved forms of life and induces what I have called Divergence of Character.
For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
But Natural Selection, as we shall hereafter see, is a power incessantly ready for action, and is immeasurably superior to man's feeble efforts, as the works of Nature are to those of Art.
I think it inevitably follows, that as new species in the course of time are formed through natural selection, others will become rarer and rarer, and finally extinct. The forms which stand in closest...
We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
It is not the strongest of the species that survives,
He importance and influence of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection can scarcely be exaggerated. A century after Darwin’s death, the great evolutionary biologist and historian of...
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