| Caleb Williams Saleeby - 1911 - 414 Seiten
...the masterpiece of which all the civilized world was lately celebrating the jubilee. Says Darwin: " 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... | |
| John Bagnell Bury - 1920 - 404 Seiten
...living forms of life are the lineal descendants of those which lived long before the Silurian epoch, we may feel certain that the ordinary succession by generation...has never once been broken, and that no cataclysm has_ desolated the whole world. Hence we may look with some confidence to a secure future of equally... | |
| George Francis Wilson - 1922 - 90 Seiten
...FORETELL THAT IT WILL BE THE COMMON AND WIDELYSPREAD SPECIES . . . WHICH WILL ULTIMATELY PREVAIL. . . 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 OP EACH BEING, ALL CORPOREAL... | |
| John Langdon-Davies - 1925 - 262 Seiten
...living forms of life are the lineal descendants of those which lived long before the Cambrian epoch, we may feel certain that the ordinary succession by generation...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... | |
| George Amos Dorsey - 1928 - 326 Seiten
...epoch, Darwin inferred still further — in fact, he felt certain, so strong was his inference — that "the ordinary succession by generation has never...that no cataclysm has desolated the whole world." These words are found in the last two paragraphs of the Origin of Species. Could anything be plainer... | |
| Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1895 - 692 Seiten
...those which lived long before the Cambrian epoch, we may feel certain that the ordinary succession of generation has never once been broken, and that no cataclysm has desolated the whole world" (Origin of Species, p. 428). Like all great discoveries, the grandeur of Mr Darwin's conception lay... | |
| Hardy Hoover - 1980 - 228 Seiten
...Camhrian epoch, we may feel certain that the ordinary succession hy generation has never once heen hroken, and that no cataclysm has desolated the whole world. Hence we may look forward with some confidence to a secure future of great length. And as natural selection works solely... | |
| Daniel Pick - 1989 - 292 Seiten
...tone as well as the subject had shifted in other ways. In The Origin he had declared it possible to 'look with some confidence to a secure future of equally inappreciable length'; he had insisted that 'natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal... | |
| Robert Finch, John Elder - 1990 - 930 Seiten
...living forms of life are the lineal descendants of those which lived long before the Cambrian epoch, we may feel certain that the ordinary succession by generation...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... | |
| Ilse Nina Bulhof - 1992 - 224 Seiten
...living forms of life are lineal descendants of those which lived long before the Cambrian epoch, we may feel certain that the ordinary succession by generation...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... | |
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