 | 1889 - 434 Seiten
...a few thousand years, there would literally not be standing room for his progeny." Again he says : "Lighten any check, mitigate the destruction ever...will almost instantaneously increase to any amount." All that breathes to-day are indebted to death, that universal destroyer, who sweeps off the generations... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1860 - 556 Seiten
...average, without more than temporary excess or diminution, so long as the conditions remain the same. Lighten any check, mitigate the destruction ever so...will almost instantaneously increase to any amount ; as we see in the increase of cockchafer-grubs and wire-worms that ensues on the foolish destruction... | |
 | 1860 - 564 Seiten
...average, without more than temporary excess or diminution, so long as the conditions remain the same. Lighten any check, mitigate the destruction ever so...will almost instantaneously increase to any amount ; as we see in the increase of cockchafer-grubs and wire-worms that ensues on the foolish destruction... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1861 - 470 Seiten
...numbers ; that each lives by a struggle at some period of its life ; that heavy destruction inevitably falls either on the young or old, during each generation...will almost instantaneously increase to any amount. The face of Nature may be compared to a yielding surface, with ten thousand sharp 4 wedges packed close... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1864 - 472 Seiten
...numbers ; that each lives by a struggle at some period of its life ; that heavy destruction inevitably falls either on the young or old, during each generation or at recurrent intervals. Lighten any eheefcrieitigate.the destruction ever so little, and the number of the species will almost instantaneously... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1866 - 668 Seiten
...numbers ; that each lives by a struggle at some period of its life ; that heavy destruction inevitably falls either on the young or old, during each generation...will almost instantaneously increase to any amount. Nature of the Check* to Increase. The causes which check the natural tendency of each species to increase... | |
 | Robert Mackenzie Beverley - 1867 - 406 Seiten
...struggle at some period of its life ; that heavy destruction inevitably falls either on the young or the old, during each generation or at recurrent intervals....will almost instantaneously increase to any amount' (69). With these quotations we have enough before us to comprehend the author's theory. We must now... | |
 | Robert Mackenzie Beverley - 1867 - 598 Seiten
...struggle at some period of its life ; that heavy destruction inevitably falls either on the young or the old, during each generation or at recurrent intervals....will almost instantaneously increase to any amount' (69). With these quotations we have enough before us to comprehend the author's theory. We must now... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1875 - 504 Seiten
...numbers ; that each lives by a struggle at some period of its life ; that heavy destruction inevitably falls either on the young or old, during each generation...at recurrent intervals. Lighten any check, mitigate tho destruction ever so little, and the number of i In: species will almost instantaneously increase... | |
 | 1883 - 446 Seiten
...numbers ; that each lives by a struggle at some period of its life; that heavy destruction inevitably falls either on the young or old, during each generation...will almost instantaneously increase to any amount." 6 The science of Geology teaches us that the face of Nature is undergoing slow but constant change,... | |
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... may be said to be striving to the utmost to increase in numbers, that each lives by a struggle at some period of its life, that heavy destruction inevitably falls either on the young or old during each generation or at recurrent intervals. Lighten... 
