 | Barbara Ann Suess - 2003 - 218 páginas
...note, comforting its readers with the consolation 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" (489; 428). 8 Gertrude Himmelfarb points out that Huxley later applauded the teleological bent in Darwin's... | |
 | James A. Arieti, Patrick A. Wilson - 2003 - 356 páginas
...of creation."14 The plan, he adds, is benevolent: "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."15 In a way, this plan is better than the one described in Genesis. There God began with... | |
 | Doug Cocks - 2003 - 356 páginas
...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 ... There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers having been... | |
 | Hans Ulrich Seeber - 2003 - 316 páginas
...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 perfetion."11 Man sieht: Darwin lieferte nur das abstrakte Vorstellungsmodell, das Lytton mit... | |
 | Ariela Freedman - 2003 - 174 páginas
...evolutionary one, which insists on ultimate progress, and claims "as natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfeclion." Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection, ed. JW Burrow... | |
 | Michael Jonathan Sessions Hodge, Gregory Radick - 2003 - 504 páginas
...Origin of Species, where the guarantee is issued that since 'natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection'.30 Despite having become a more reserved individual, Darwin yet portrayed nature... | |
 | Duncan Reid, Mark William Worthing - 2003 - 262 páginas
...least, Darwin also pointed to the future by writing: 'And as natural selection works solely and for good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.'4 Two words are significant in this statement: 'progress' and 'perfection'. Indeed, the... | |
 | Peter J. Bowler - 2003 - 485 páginas
...struggle and suffering, he suggests in the Origin that "as natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend toward perfection" (488-89). Without implying a single hierarchy of evolution leading to humankind,... | |
 | Stephen Kern - 2009 - 448 páginas
...edition of On the Origin of Species, Darwin claimed that "as natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection."53 In history the Judéo-Christian tradition offered the hope for worldly perfection,... | |
 | Rex Welshon - 2004 - 246 páginas
...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.* * C. Darwin, On The Origin of Species (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,... | |
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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. 
