...chapter does contain a strong teleological suggestion: "as natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection" (395). Since natural selection is a genealogical theory, the uncovering of this...

...to a secure future of equally inappreciable length. And as natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection. It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of...