RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1854.11. There is no law of Progression, but time wd give better chance of sports. CUL-DAR205.9.250. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 9.2021. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR205.9 contains notes on palaeontology and geology [regarding theory of evolution].
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There is no law of Progression, but time wd give better chance of sports, & allow more selection; & all the organisms thus living an advantage, - as free competition of labour, - the result wd be more complicated & more perfect; but how impossible to judge of latter. And it must be particularly restricted that these remarks only apply to such forms as have been considerably modified.
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Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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