 | Ernst Mayr - 1982 - 996 페이지
...Nature: "Nature cares nothing for appearances, except in so far as they may be useful to any being. She can act on every internal organ, on every shade...constitutional difference, on the whole machinery of life" (Origin: 83). "Natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation,... | |
 | T. Ingold - 1986 - 460 페이지
...— select in person (Darwin 1872:60; see Barnett 1983:38). 'Man', he continues in the same passage, 'selects only for his own good; Nature only for that of the being which she tends.' In other words, there is no plan in nature beyond those uniquely embodied in each and every one of... | |
 | Samuel Anthony Barnett - 1988 - 410 페이지
...Nature, if I may be allowed to personify the natural preservation or survival of the fittest, . . . can act on every internal organ, on every shade of...Nature only for that of the being which she tends. But he also writes: It has been said that I speak of natural selection as an active power or Deity;... | |
 | George Levine - 1991 - 334 페이지
..."act only on external and visible characters," while "nature" "cares nothing for appearances," and can "act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional difference" (p. 132). The extension of this figure sounds like natural theology: "It may be said that natural selection... | |
 | Matthew H. Nitecki, Doris V. Nitecki - 1992 - 282 페이지
...characters: nature cares nothing for appearances, except in so far as they may be useful to any being. She can act on every internal organ, on every shade...Nature only for that of the being which she tends ... It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, throughout the world, every... | |
 | Ilse Nina Bulhof - 1992 - 224 페이지
...deceive her: Nature (...) cares nothing for appearances.(90) Nature works on the animal's insides: She can act on every internal organ, on every shade...constitutional difference, on the whole machinery of life.(9o) She has been doing so continuously, century after century. Compared with the working of nature,... | |
 | Robert J. Richards - 2009 - 224 페이지
...natural selection altruistically looked to the welfare of the creatures selected. As Darwin put it: "Man selects only for his own good; Nature only for that of the being which she tends." 53 He concluded that natural selection therefore insured progressive evolution: "as natural selection... | |
 | Ronald Cole-Turner - 1993 - 132 페이지
...improper extension of the metaphor) nature selects intentionally for progress. Darwin himself could write, "Man selects only for his own good; Nature only for that of the being which she tends" (1968 [1859], p. 132). If taken literally, the metaphor of "natural selection" is dangerously misleading.... | |
 | Robert M. Torrance - 2023 - 396 페이지
...reveals the persistence of seemingly teleological and even anthropomorphic patterns in his thought. "Man selects only for his own good; Nature only for that of the being which she tends" (132), and Nature's productions "plainly bear the stamp of far higher workmanship. ... It may be said,"... | |
 | Marcello Pera - 1994 - 272 페이지
...nothing for appearances, except in so far as they may be useful to any being. She can act on everv internal organ, on every shade of constitutional difference, on the whole machinery of life. . . . Can we wonder, then, that nature's productions should be far "truer" in character than man's... | |
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I may be allowed to personify the natural preservation or survival of the fittest, cares nothing for appearances, except in so far as they are useful to any being. She can act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional difference, on the... 
