...defines 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...

...the indirect 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...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...

...the indirect 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,...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...

...the indirect 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,...entailing Divergence of Character and the Extinction of less improved forms." From this recapitulatory chapter, we shall make but two more sets of extracts,...

...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...

...the indirect 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,...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...

...the indirect 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,...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...

...the indirect 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,...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...

...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...

...the indirect 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,...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...