It cannot but happen that those individuals whose functions are most out of equilibrium with the modified aggregate of external forces, will be those to die; and that those will survive whose functions happen to be most nearly in equilibrium with the modified aggregate of external forces. But this survival of the fittest, implies multiplication of the fittest. Out of the fittest thus multiplied, there will, as before, be an overthrowing of the moving equilibrium wherever it presents the least opposing force to the new incident force.
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With a higher moral nature will come a restriction on the multiplication of the inferior.
Permalink to quote #2 Man needed one moral constitution to fit him for his original state ; he needs another to fit him for his present state; and he has been, is, and will long con…
Permalink to quote #3 Every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberties by every other man.
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