...conditions," or more briefly, " sense of need." " Whereas," continues Mr. Darwin, " it " (natural selection) " implies only the preservation of such variations as...speaking of the potent effects of man's selection." Of course not ; for there is an actual creature man, who actually does select with a set purpose in...

...Darwin's answer to those who have objected to the expression, "natural selection." Mr. Darwin says:— " Several writers have misapprehended or objected to...imagined that natural selection induces variability."* And small wonder if they have; but those who have fallen into this error are hardly worth considering....

..."Only those variations which are in some way profitable will be preserved or naturally selected." " Several 'writers have misapprehended or objected to...beneficial to the being under its conditions of life." "This preservation of favorable individual differences and variations and the destruction of those...

...one direction such variations as "arise" by unknown laws, and tend to add to their usefulness: — " Several writers have misapprehended or objected to...variability, whereas it implies only the preservation of tuck variations as arise and are beneficial to the being under its conditions of life." — " Unless/«wable...

...imagined that natural selection induces variability, whereas it implies only the preservation of tuck variations as arise and are beneficial to the being under its conditions of life." — " Unless/azwable variations be inherited by some at least of the offspring, nothing can be effected...

...dangerous to theism. In appreciation of its being extremely indeterminate as a cause, Darwin remarks:2 "Several writers have misapprehended or objected to...beneficial to the being under its conditions of life The variability which we almost universally meet with in our domestic productions is not directly produced,...

...misapprehended or objected to the \ttmnatural seiettioH. Some have even imagined that natural *t Itction induces variability, whereas it implies only the preservation...and are beneficial to the being under its conditions in life. Darwin. Selective (sS-lek'tiv), a. Selecting; tending to select. 'Selective providence of...

...misapprehended or objected tothcteriiind/Mrnt' ir-iV, .'i.'»f , Some have even imagined that natural it iectien induces variability, whereas it implies only the preservation of such variations as arise and are oenefioal to the being under its conditions in life, Darwin. Selective (s«5-lek'tiv)1 a. Selecting;...

...SEVBRAL writers have misapprehended or Species, objected to the term Natural Selection. Some !''<oc ''• have even imagined that natural selection induces...man's selection ; and in this case the individual difference given by nature, which man for some object selects, must of necessity first occur. Others...

...in one direction such variations as "arise "by unknown laws, and tend to add to their usefulness : " Several writers have misapprehended or objected to...it implies only the preservation of such variations at arise and are beneficial to the being under its conditions of life."— "Unless favorable variations...