| → manner, although the climate may be exactly the same as in its former home. 1872 |
| manner. 1859 1860 1861 1866 1869 |
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| → OMIT 1872 |
| we wished to increase 1859 1860 1861 1866 1869 |
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| → are to increase in 1872 |
| in 1859 1860 1861 1866 1869 |
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| → had to do 1872 |
| done 1859 1860 |
| to do 1861 1866 1869 |
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| → to any one species an 1872 |
| any form some 1859 1860 1861 1866 1869 |
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| → do. 1872 |
| do, so as to succeed. 1859 1860 1861 1866 1869 |
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| → This ought to 1872 |
| It will 1859 1860 1861 1866 1869 |
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| → is 1872 |
| seems to be 1859 1860 1861 |
| seems 1866 1869 |
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conditions of its life will generally be changed in an essential
→manner, although the climate may be exactly the same as in its former home. If
→OMIT
its average numbers
→are to increase in
its new home, we should have to modify it in a different way to what we should have
→had 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
→to any one species an
advantage over another. Probably in no single instance should we know what to
→do.
→This ought to
convince us of our ignorance on the mutual relations of all organic beings; a conviction as necessary, as it
→is
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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