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advantage to our plant; but we have reason to believe that only a few plants or animals range so far, that they are destroyed
the rigour of the
Not until we reach the extreme confines of life, in the
regions or on the borders of an utter desert, will competition cease. The land may be extremely cold or dry, yet there will be competition between some few species, or between the individuals of the same species, for the warmest or dampest spots. |
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we can see that when a plant or animal is placed in a new country amongst new competitors,
the
→climate may be exactly the same as in its former home, yet the
conditions of its life will generally be changed in an essential
→manner. If
→we wished to increase
its average numbers
→in
its new home, we should have to modify it in a different way to what we should have
→to do
in its native country; for we should have to give it some advantage over a different set of competitors or enemies. |
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| It is good thus to try in
imagination to give
→any form some
advantage over another. Probably in no single instance should we know what to
→do, so as to succeed.
→It will
convince us of our ignorance on the mutual relations of all organic beings; a conviction as necessary, as it
→seems
difficult to acquire. All that we can do, is to keep steadily in mind that each organic being is striving to increase
a geometrical ratio; that each at some period of its life, during some season of the year, during each generation or at intervals, has to struggle for
and to suffer great destruction. When we reflect on this struggle, we may console ourselves with the full belief, that the war of nature is not incessant, that no fear is felt, that death is generally prompt, and that the vigorous, the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply.
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