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" Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. "
Daily Life in Victorian England
by Sally Mitchell - 1996 - 311 pages
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The New Englander, Volumes 19-20

1861 - 1148 pages
...comprehensively as laws of Growth with Reproduction, Inheritance, and Variability, with a Ratio of Increase so high as to lead to a Struggle for Life, and as a consequence to Natural Selection. "It is interesting to contemplate an entangled " Edward Everett, at the inauguration of Mr. Webster's...
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Bericht über die fortschritte der anatomie und physiologie ..., Volume 13

1860 - 694 pages
...and direct action of the external condition of life , and frotn use and disuse , a ratio of increase so high as to lead to a struggle for life and as a...natural selection, entailing divergence of character and to the extinction of less-improved forms. Thus from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most...
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Crosthwaite's Register of facts and occurrences relating to literature, the ...

Crosthwaite and co - 1860 - 622 pages
...and direct action of the external conditions of life, and from use and disuse ; a Ratio of Increase so high as to lead to a Struggle for Life, and as...entailing Divergence of Character and the Extinction of less improved forms." From this recapitulatory chapter, we shall make but two more sets of extracts,...
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Life on the Earth: Its Origin and Succession

John Phillips - 1860 - 262 pages
...and direct action of the external conditions of life, and from use and disuse; a ratio of increase so high as to lead to a struggle for life, and as...entailing divergence of character, and the extinction of less improved forms. Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which...
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The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and advocate

1860 - 890 pages
...Finally, at the conclusion of the argument, the definite view comes out in no ambiguous language : — "Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death,...object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, thn production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with...
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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection; Or, The Preservation ...

Charles Darwin - 1861 - 470 pages
...and direct action of the external conditions of life, and from use and disuse ; a Ratio of Increase so high as to lead to a Struggle for Life, and as...of the higher animals, directly follows. There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few...
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The past and present life of the globe, a sketch of the world's life-system

David Page - 1861 - 278 pages
...and direct action of the external conditions of life, and from use and disuse ; a ratio of increase so high as to lead to a struggle for life, and as...entailing divergence of character and the extinction of less improved forms. Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object we...
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The Past and Present Life of the Globe: Being a Sketch in Outline of the ...

David Page - 1861 - 276 pages
...and direct action of the external conditions of life, and from use and disuse ; a ratio of increase so high as to lead to a struggle for life, and as...entailing divergence of character and the extinction of less improved forms. Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object we...
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The Anthropological Review, Volume 1

1863 - 584 pages
...is most sound on this point. That the extirpation of the lower race should be the immediate cause of "the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the. higher animals,"* is a sound biological generalization. The historical event, that the autochthonous Gaulish race has...
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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation ...

Charles Darwin - 1864 - 472 pages
...and direct action of the external conditions of life, and from use and disuse ; a Ratio of Increase so high as to lead to a Struggle for Life, and as...of the higher animals, directly follows. There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few...
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