RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Ch 6 / One admires industry of man who out of a bed of roses. CUL-DAR47.88. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 7.2022. 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-DAR47 contains notes for Natural selection chap. 7 'Laws of Variation'.
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One admires industry of man who out of a bed of roses exposed to new conditions of manure, in course of 10 or 12 years watches the origin & selects 2 or 3 varieties what is this to nature who watches a million individuals exposed them to endless varieties of conditions during thousands of yrs, unerringly selects & exterminates those she does not want. Can we wonder then that the varieties produced by nature are a thousand fold
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more wonderful than those produced by man
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