...slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers,...its organic and inorganic conditions of life,"— if this, I say, were proved to be true, ought God's care, God's providence, to seem less or more magnificent...

...variations, rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that are good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers,...organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic condi* The passage is quoted as given by Schmidt in his Doctrine of Descent, p. 132. Italics are inserted...

...'ejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that are good ; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers,...to its organic and inorganic conditions of life. We sets nothing of these slow changes in progress, until the hand of time has marked the lapse of ages,...

...slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good ; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers,...to its organic and inorganic conditions of life," — if this, I say, were proved to be true, ought God's care, God's providence, to seem less or more...

...slightest ; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good, silently and insensibly working whenever and wherever opportunity offers,...to its organic and inorganic conditions of life." He also says, " The term general good may be defined as the means by which the greatest possible number...

...slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good ; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers,...to its organic and inorganic conditions of life,' — if this, I say, were proved to be true, ought God's care and God's providence to seem less or more...

...slightest, rejecting all that is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good, silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers,...in progress until the hand of time has marked the long lapse of ages, and then so imperfect is our view into long past geological ages that we only see...

...rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that are good ; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers,...relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life" ; our theory of ethics must be modified accordingly. If (what, after all, has passed into a commonplace)...

...movement of nature. We need not be surprised when even minds of a different order can " see nothing of the slow changes in progress until the hand of time has...lapse of ages ; and then so imperfect is our view into long past geological ages, that we see only that the forms of life are now different from what they...

...slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers,...to its organic and inorganic conditions of life." In the struggle for existence, always going on, it is evident that individuals having the least advantage...