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...Bible. There is a general progression in nature. The theory that the world was once a vapor from which the earth evolved is not consistent with the scriptures, for they speak of its being 'void without form.' The natural struggles for existence lead to the survival of the fittest, a most benevolent law, and also in accordance with the Scriptures. Man is so constituted with the faculties that God has given him that he learns by experience. Without order, of what benefit would experience be ? Evolution teaches that the present comes out of the past and goes down...
...doctrine of "the survival of the fittest" is one which holds good in all enterprises and departments of life. Therefore, with its excellent record of the past, its reputation for typographical neatness and correctness, and the proposed additions to its departments next year, the Crimson need have no fears for a successful future. The HERALD extends its congratulations and wishes it success...
...Johns Hopkins, Columbia, Amherst, College of the City of New York, Michigan, University of Virginia, Union, Trinity and Wesleyan. The answers which they have returned to the invitation of the committee have been in the main very favorable. Professor Goodwin was the unanimous choice of the committee as the fittest man for the position of first director of the school...
...down the rule that there must be some natural facility in adaptation and appropriation besides originality, which is admitted to be a sine qua non. One must have the faculty of selection in its highest development. We ourselves are living illustrations of the law of "The Survival of the Fittest" in its grossest and most palpable application. This law we must apply to the higher and (if I may) more aesthetic province of dress and manners. The theory that manners are the exponents of the feelings, and that the good heart shows itself in good manners, is a delusion...
...first sight, we must confess, a row, in which the marshals are sometimes obliged to use their batons like policemen's billies, and a series of clownish actions that would disgrace school-boys of ten years old, may not seem the fittest exhibition of ourselves we can make to our friends. We have dwelt sufficiently, however, on the fallacy of confusing facts with ideas. It needs no argument to withstand the enthusiasm of innovation. The nature of its error is apparent to all of us who have howled in the Yard in our Freshman year, who were properly drunk...