 | Patrick Matthew - Arboriculture - 1831 - 422 pages
...immense waste of primary and youthful life, those only come forward to maturity from the strict ordeal by which Nature tests their adaptation to her standard...progeny have to take the more particular qualities of the parents, together with the connected sexual system in vegetables, and instinctive limitation to... | |
 | Francis Buchanan White White - Natural history - 1872 - 330 pages
...waste of primary and youthful life — those only come forward to maturity, from the strict ordeal by which nature tests their adaptation to her standard...parents, together with the connected sexual system in vegetables, and instinctive limitation to its own kind in animals, a considerable uniformity of figure,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - Evolution - 1879 - 436 pages
...immense waste of primary and youthful life those only come forward to maturity from the strict ordeal by which nature tests their adaptation to her standard...progeny have to take the more particular qualities of the parents, together with the connected sexual system in vegetables and instinctive limitation to... | |
 | Samuel Butler - Evolution - 1879 - 402 pages
...immense waste of primary and youthful life those only come forward to maturity from the strict ordeal by which nature tests their adaptation to her standard...to continue their kind by reproduction. " From the Hnremitting operation of this law acting in concert with the tendency which the progeny have to take... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1879 - 956 pages
...immense waste of primary and youthful life those only come forward to maturity from the strict ordeal by which nature tests their adaptation to her standard...and fitness to continue their kind by reproduction." He then goes on to show how this law tends to the production of almost uniform groups of individuals... | |
 | Agriculture - 1860 - 606 pages
...immense waste of primary and youthful life, thote only come forward to maturity from the strict ordeal by which nature tests their adaptation to her standard...parents, together with the connected sexual system in vegetables and instinctive limitation to its own kind in animals, a considerable uniformity of figure,... | |
 | Edward Clodd - Evolution - 1897 - 312 pages
...such immense waste of primary and youthful life those only come to maturity from the strict ordeal by which Nature tests their adaptation to her standard...and fitness to continue their kind by reproduction " (pp. 384, 385). While speaking of difficulty in understanding some passages in Mr. Matthew's appendix,... | |
 | Society of American Foresters - Forests and forestry - 1912 - 682 pages
...waste of primary and youthful life — those only come forward to maturity from the strict ordeal by which Nature tests their adaptation to her standard...progeny have to take the more particular qualities of the parents, together with the connected sexual system in vegetables and instinctive limitation to... | |
 | Society of American Foresters - Forests and forestry - 1913 - 406 pages
...waste of primary and youthful life — those only come forward to maturity from the strict ordeal by which Nature tests their adaptation to her standard...progeny have to take the more particular qualities of the parents, together with the connected sexual system in vegetables and instinctive limitation to... | |
 | Samuel Butler - Epic poetry, Greek - 1924 - 426 pages
...immense waste of primary and youthful life those only come forward to maturity from the strict ordeal by which nature tests their adaptation to her standard...progeny have to take the more particular qualities of the parents, together with the connefted sexual system in vegetables and instinctive limitation to... | |
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... and support; whose capacities and instincts can best regulate the physical energies to self-advantage according to circumstances — in such immense waste of primary and youthful life, those only come forward to maturity from the strict ordeal by... 
