 | 1881 - 898 str.
...so far as he speculates about the influence of great men, is to take them for granted, and inquire how far they affect the environment, and how far or...the variations in excess of length of proboscis to survive and leave offspring, while the variations in the opposite direction are starved out ; so that... | |
 | Don S. Browning - 1980 - 288 str.
...to the great man is in the main exactly what it is to the "variation" in the Darwinian philosophy. It chiefly adopts or rejects, preserves or destroys, in short selects him. And whenever it adapts and preserves the great man, it becomes modified by his influence in an entirely... | |
 | T. Ingold - 1986 - 460 str.
...to the great man is in the main exactly what it is to the "variation" in the Darwinian philosophy. It chiefly adopts or rejects, preserves or destroys, in short selects him' (1898:226). But his appearance is a mere accident. James's argument is, of course, based on a serious... | |
 | Gerald Eugene Myers - 2001 - 666 str.
...environment to the great man is in the main exacdy what it is to the "variation" in the Darwinian philosophy. It chiefly adopts or rejects, preserves or destroys, in short selects him. And whenever it adopts and preserves the great man, it becomes modified by his influence in an entirely... | |
 | Shamoon Zamir - 1995 - 316 str.
...to the great man is in the main exactly what it is to the 'variation' in the Darwinian philosophy. It chiefly adopts or rejects, preserves or destroys, in short selects him" (GM 226). Individual "initiatives," the equivalents of Darwinian spontaneous variation, are subsumed... | |
 | Wayne P. Pomerleau - 1997 - 566 str.
...spontaneous variations in Darwinian thought — that is to say, the environment plays a selective role: "It chiefly adopts or rejects, preserves or destroys, in short selects him. And whenever it adopts and preserves the great man, it becomes modified by his influence in an entirely... | |
 | Robert D. Richardson - 2006 - 660 str.
...man," said James, "is in the main exactly what it is to the Variation' in the Darwinian philosophy. It chiefly adopts or rejects, preserves or destroys, in short selects him." Potentially great individuals arise at uncertain intervals in the natural course of events. But only... | |
 | 1921 - 644 str.
...to the great man is in the main exactly what it is to the " variation " in the Darwinian philosophy. It chiefly adopts or rejects, preserves or destroys, in short selects him. And whenever it adopts and preserves the great man, it becomes modified by his influence in an original... | |
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I affirm that the relation of the visible environment to the great man is in the main exactly what it is to the "variation 
