Criticism On "the Origin of Species"
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Flourens can make of Natural Selection. We have given the original, in fear lest a translation should beregarded as a travesty; but with the original before the reader, wemay try to analyse the passage. "For an organized being, Nature is onlyorganization, neither more nor less. " Organized beings then have absolutely no relation to inorganic nature: aplant does not, depend on soil or sunshine, climate, depth in theocean, height above it; the quantity of saline matters in water have noinfluence ...upon animal life; the substitution of carbonic acid for oxygenin our atmosphere would hurt nobody! That these are absurdities no oneshould know better than M. Flourens; but they are logical deductionsfrom the assertion just quoted, and from the further statement thatnatural selection means only that "organization chooses and selectsorganization. " For if it be once admitted (what no sane man denies) that the chances oflife of any given organism are increased by certain conditions (A) anddiminished by their opposites (B), then it is mathematically certainthat any change of conditions in the direction of (A) will exercise aselective influence in favour of that organism, tending to its increaseand multiplication, while any change in the direction of (B) willexercise a selective influence against that organism, tending to itsdecrease and extinction.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Flourens can make of Natural Selection. We have given the original, in fear lest a translation should beregarded as a travesty; but with the original before the reader, wemay try to analyse the passage. "For an organized being, Nature is onlyorganization, neither more nor less. " Organized beings then have absolutely no relation to inorganic nature: aplant does not, depend on soil or sunshine, climate, depth in theocean, height above it; the quantity of saline matters in water have noinfluence ...upon animal life; the substitution of carbonic acid for oxygenin our atmosphere would hurt nobody! That these are absurdities no oneshould know better than M. Flourens; but they are logical deductionsfrom the assertion just quoted, and from the further statement thatnatural selection means only that "organization chooses and selectsorganization. " For if it be once admitted (what no sane man denies) that the chances oflife of any given organism are increased by certain conditions (A) anddiminished by their opposites (B), then it is mathematically certainthat any change of conditions in the direction of (A) will exercise aselective influence in favour of that organism, tending to its increaseand multiplication, while any change in the direction of (B) willexercise a selective influence against that organism, tending to itsdecrease and extinction.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Huxley Thomas Henry to read onlineMoreLess
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