...confidence in this process. They would agree with Darwin 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" (The Origin of Species 395), and they are only too eager to see a similar perfection...

...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.'54 Darwin's view of man seems materialist: 'Why is thought, being a secretion of the brain,...

...altruistic, natural selection will produce perfection: "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."28 But perfection, here, is only a tendency and at best a fulfillment of a certain potential...

...necessary steps, making room for new and better life forms. As "natural selection works solely by and for the good of each ^ being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress to- _ wards perfection," Darwin wrote. "Thus from the war of nature, from IJ7 famine and death, the...

...evolution exemplified and, ultimately, produced. For "as natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection."54 The moral character of nature's actions in regard to her own creations is whispered,...

...the closing pages of The Origin of Species, he even declares that natural selection 'works by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection'.14 But Darwin stopped short of a law of progressive development. He repeatedly...

...the being she tends.' And towards the end of the book: '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 arguable that Darwin included these passages as a prudent means of de-fanging...

...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. It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many...

...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.51 "Progress towards perfection" does not follow from Darwin's theory; it appears...

...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...