...natural selection, entailing divergence of character and to the extinction of less-improved forms. Thus from the war of nature, from famine and death,...of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers having been originally breathed by the Creator...

...to natural selection, entailing divergence of character, and the extinction of less improved forms. Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death,...of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers having been originally breathed into a few forms...

...Finally, at the conclusion of the argument, the definite view comes out in no ambiguous language : — "Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death,...object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, thn production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with...

...to natural selection, entailing divergence of character and the extinction of less improved forms. Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object we are capable of conceiving — -namely, the production of the higher animals — directly follows....

...to natural selection, entailing divergence of character and the extinction of less improved forms. Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object we are capable of conceiving— namely, the production of the higher animals — directly follows....

...is most sound on this point. That the extirpation of the lower race should be the immediate cause of "the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the. higher animals,"* is a sound biological generalization. The historical event, that the autochthonous Gaulish race has...

...struggle for life and by the numerous variations which occur, less-improved forms become extinct, and " thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death,...of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life with its several powers having been originally breathed by the Creator...

...to Natural Selection, entailing Divergence of Character and the Extinction of less-improved forms. Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death,...of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator...

...primordial form, into which life was breathed by the Creator.'f Mr. Darwin says, somewhat exultingly : ' There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers having been breathed by the Creator into a few forms, or one.' There is, doubtless, necessarily a grandeur in any...

...to Natural Selection, entailing Divergence of Character and the Extinction of less improved forms. Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production (creation ?) of the higher animals, directly follows."...