 natural selection ' himself, but he is actually able to take away some of that power from Nature which, before his appearance, she universally exercised. "We can anticipate the time when the earth will produce only cultivated plants and domestic animals;...  The Action of Natural Selection on Man - Page 21by Alfred Russel Wallace - 1871 - 54 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1902 - 642 pages
...rise and the worst would not sink. Wallace, however, hit the truth when he stated \ that ' man ... is actually able to take away some of that power ' from Nature which before his appearance she actually ' exercised.' Man can never escape from natural selection, which will remorselessly punish... | |
 | Anthropology - 1864 - 668 pages
...modify all other organic beings. Nay more ; this victory which he has gained for himself gives him a directing influence over other existences. Man has...only escaped " natural selection" himself, but he actually is able to take away some of that power from nature which, before his appearance, she universally... | |
 | Ethnology - 1865 - 420 pages
...modify all other organic beings. Nay, more : this victory which he has gained for himself gives him a directing influence over other existences. Man has...when man's selection shall have supplanted ' natural seleetion ;' and when the ocean will be the only domain in which that power can be exerted which for... | |
 | Charles Bray - Anthropology - 1871 - 386 pages
...body, but' by an advance of mind. * * * Here, then, we see the true grandeur and dignity of man. * * * Man has not only escaped ' Natural Selection ' himself,...before his appearance she universally exercised." * Natural Selection, however, has only been transferred from the body to the brain and mind ; but this... | |
 | Charles Bray - Anthropology - 1871 - 398 pages
...body, but by an advance of mind. * * * Here, then, we see the true grandeur and dignity of man. * * * Man has not only escaped ' Natural Selection ' himself,...before his appearance she universally exercised." * Natural Selection, however, has only been transferred from the body to the brain and mind ; but this... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Archaeology - 1872 - 696 pages
...beings. Nay, more : this victory which he has gained for himself gives him a directing influence ov* other existences. Man has not only escaped ' natural...shall have supplanted 'natural selection ; ' and when file ocean will be the only domain in which that power can be exerted, which for countless cycles of... | |
 | B. F. Cocker - Apologetics - 1873 - 284 pages
...modify all other organic beings. Nay more; this victory which he has gained for himself, gives him a directing influence over other existences. Man has...animals; when man's selection shall have supplanted 'natnral selection '; and when the ocean will be the only domain in which that power can be exerted,... | |
 | B. F. Cocker - Theism - 1875 - 442 pages
...value (if studied philosophically) in so far as we by means of it, as by means of nature, can divine to take away some of that power from nature which, before his appearance, she universally exercised " ("On Xatural Selection," pp. 325, 3L'G). See also Lubbock's " L'rehistoric Times," last chapter.... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - Evolution - 1875 - 454 pages
...modify all other organic beings. Nay more ; this victory which he has gained for himself, gives him a directing influence over other existences. Man has...not only escaped " natural selection " himself, but ho is actually able to take away some of that power from nature which before his appearance she universally... | |
 | Samuel Wainwright - Evolution - 1881 - 348 pages
...since he is not influenced by the great laws which irresistibly modify all other organic beings. . . . Man has not only escaped ' natural selection ' himself,...before his appearance, she universally exercised." 1 Conclusive as is this testimony in itself, it is doubly so on account of the quarter from which it... | |
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