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Britain's most significant contribution to civilization, more important even than plum pudding, plaid dinner jackets and Winston Churchill, is the principle of the survival of the fittest. Adam Smith applied it to economics, Charles Darwin to biology and Cecil Rhodes to Empire. In these illustrious footsteps follows Stephen Potter, who threatens to apply it to everything...
These two stuffed beasts set the theme of the Zoological Museum--the struggle between man and beast, and the survival of the fittest. It is something to shame men everywhere, and to frighten them too. For this struggle has not been a one-way persecution. Beasts, it seems, have harkened to the biblical injunction, "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth...
...more this is supposed to hold true even when everyone else in the area is also wearing civilian clothes. It will be just that much more obvious tomorrow afternoon, for any student who makes the trip to West Point will find himself surrounded by 2,496 of the fittest, proudest, and most highly disciplined young men in the world...
Survival of the Fittest. Near Brunswick, Ga., Alfred Alsop spied a white-tailed deer, shot at it, pushed through the underbrush, picked up what he'd hit: one white tail. In Poplar Bluff, Mo., Dale Kirk and Ralph Tuepker went duckhunting, found a likely spot, built a blind, settled down to await the birds, presently discovered that Kirk had forgotten to bring his ammunition, Tuepker had forgotten...
Survival of the Fittest...