...in concluding the Origin of Species, he remarked that "as natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection."10 The form in which the problem of 'evolution' presented itself to Darwin was how species...

...some confidence to a secure future of great 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." Now let us compare these affirmations of optimism with typical statements by contemporary...

...social preference more than nature's record in writing: "As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection." Life's pathway certainly includes many features predictable from laws of nature,...

...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...

...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...

...some confidence to a secure future of great length. And as natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection." However, since the nineteenth century when these confident words were penned, we have experienced two...

...refrain from pointing toward the future by writing: "And as natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection." Two words are signifscant in this statement: "progress" and "perfection." Indeed, the discerning eye...

...Species (1859:489), the last sentence of which reads: "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." Here, it is important to realize, Darwin is using the language employed by the...

...the origin of species, at the end of Origin he says: 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. (Darwin, 1859, p. 459) But progress to large brains was never inevitable. Natural...

...Steve. "The most famous one comes from near the end: '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.' But historians make a mistake when they try to find utter consistency in the world...