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and is as immeasurably superior to
mans
man's
feeble efforts, as the works of Nature are to those of Art.
We will now discuss in a little more detail the struggle for existence. In my future work this subject
will
shall
be treated, as it well deserves, at
much
much
greater length. The elder
de
De
Candolle and Lyell have largely and philosophically shown that all organic beings are exposed to severe competition. In regard to plants, no one has treated this subject with more spirit and ability than W. Herbert, Dean of Manchester, evidently the result of his great horticultural knowledge. Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more
difficult—at
difficult—
at
at
least I have found it
so—than
so—
than
than
constantly to bear this conclusion in mind. Yet unless it be thoroughly engrained in the mind, OMIT the whole economy of nature, with every fact on distribution, rarity, abundance, extinction, and variation, will be dimly seen or quite misunderstood. We behold the face of nature bright with gladness, we often see superabundance of food; we do not
see
see,
or we
forget,
forget
that the birds which are idly singing round us mostly live on insects or seeds, and are thus constantly destroying life; or we forget how largely these songsters, or their eggs, or their nestlings, are destroyed by birds and beasts of prey; we do not always bear in mind,
that,
that
though food may be now superabundant, it is not so at all seasons of each recurring year.
I should premise that I use
this
the
term Struggle for Existence in a large and metaphorical sense, including dependence of one being on another, and including (which is more important) not only the life of the individual, but success in leaving progeny. Two canine
animals,
animals
in a time of dearth, may be truly said to struggle with each other which shall get food and live. But a plant on the edge of a desert is said to struggle