| Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell - 1900 - 344 páginas
...evidently that also of Darwin himself, who thus concluded his chapter on the struggle for existence: "When we reflect on this struggle, we may console...belief that the war of nature is not incessant, that 110 fear is felt, that death is generally prompt, and that the vigorous, the healthy, and the happy... | |
| THOMAS G GENTRY - 1900 - 566 páginas
...destruction. When we reflect on this struggle, we can console ourselves with the full belief that this war of nature is not incessant, that no fear is felt, that death is generally sudden, and that the vigorous, healthy and happy survive and multiply. Seeing what a potent influence... | |
| Thomas George Gentry - 1900 - 532 páginas
...destruction. When we reflect on this struggle, we can console ourselves with the full belief that this war of nature is not incessant, that no fear is felt, that death is generally sudden, and that the vigorous, healthy and happy survive and multiply. Seeing what a potent influence... | |
| James Edward Peabody, Arthur Ellsworth Hunt - 1912 - 242 páginas
...book of modern times, — closes his chapter on the "Struggle for Existence" with the following words: "When we reflect on this struggle we may console ourselves...is felt, that death is generally prompt, and that ^aat^-^a-afew/^-T^^*-*^. the vigorous, the ^^^^^S^f&JKj^^ healthy, and the happy survive and multiply."1... | |
| James Edward Peabody, Arthur Ellsworth Hunt - 1912 - 242 páginas
...book of modern times, — closes his lapter on the "Struggle for Existence" with the following words: When we reflect on this struggle we may console ourselves with the II belief that the war of nature is not incessant, that no fear is felt, that death is generally prompt,... | |
| 1894 - 556 páginas
...history with a continuous stream of blood. Darwin's consoling optimism that, in the struggle for life, " the war of nature is not incessant, that no fear is felt, that death is generally prompt," is irreconcilable with the experience of those conversant with wild countries and wild beasts. Sexual... | |
| John Arthur Thomson - 1920 - 356 páginas
...concludes his chapter on the " Struggle for Existence " with the sentence : " When we reflect on the struggle, we may console ourselves with the full belief...fear is felt, that death is generally prompt, and the vigorous, the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply." We must beware of anthropomorphic exaggeration,... | |
| Helena Cronin - 1991 - 510 páginas
...Darwin takes care in the Origin to end the chapter on the struggle for existence with this reassurance: 'When we reflect on this struggle, we may console...of nature is not incessant, that no fear is felt, Nature most cruel South American bird-eating spider with its prey ''We behold the face of nature bright... | |
| David Amigoni - 1995 - 228 páginas
...greater good of the 'social organism', taking as its text the ministration on death in the Origin: 'when we reflect on this struggle, we may console...incessant, that no fear is felt, that death is generally prompt'.70 Stephen was clearly antipathetic to representations of death which were noisy, rhetorical... | |
| Pascal Acot - 1998 - 458 páginas
...at some period of its life, during some season of the year, during each generation or at intervals, has to struggle for life, and to suffer great destruction....may console ourselves with the full belief, that the Avar of nature is not incessant, that no fear is felt, that death is generally prompt, and that the... | |
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