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" 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 great length. And as natural selection... "
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Life on the Earth: Its Origin and Succession

John Phillips - Life - 1860 - 262 pages
...the 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...corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection. 'It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of...
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All the Year Round, Volume 3

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...
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Life on the Earth: Its Origin and Succession

John Phillips - Life - 1860 - 280 pages
...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...may look with some confidence to a secure future of equally inappreciable length. And as natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being,...
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Eclectic and Congregational Review

1860 - 966 pages
...epoch, we may feel certain that the ordinary succession by generation has never once Wn broken, and that no cataclysm has desolated the whole world. Hence...may look with some confidence to a secure future of eqnally inappreciable length. And as natural selection works solely l'y and for the good of each being,...
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The American Journal of Science and Arts

1860 - 982 pages
...and one may feel certain that the ordinary succession by generation has never once been broken, and that no cataclysm has desolated the whole world. Hence,...may look with some confidence to a secure future of equally inappreciable length. And as Natural Selection works solely by and for the good of each being,...
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The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View of the ..., Volume 11

Geology - 1860 - 390 pages
...epoch, we may feel certain that the ordinary succession by generation has never been once broken, and that no cataclysm has desolated the whole world. Hence we may look forward with some confidence to a secure future of equally inappreciable length. And as natural selection...
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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection; Or, The Preservation ...

Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1861 - 470 pages
...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...may look with some confidence to a secure future of equally inappreciable length. And as natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being,...
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Zoologist: A Monthly Journal of Natural History, Volume 19

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...endowments will tend to progress towards perfection." We must confess these passages pain us, because we believe their thoughtful author must have considered...
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The Three Barriers: Notes on Mr. Darwin's "Origin of Species."

Gilbert Rorison - Evolution - 1861 - 192 pages
...safely infer that not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant 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 good of each being,...
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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation ...

Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1864 - 472 pages
...the 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...endowments will tend to progress towards perfection. It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds...
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