A long series of gradations in dignity ended at the simple owners of castles, with their subject peasants or serfs.
We are therefore led to enquire whether slight individual differences, to which man is eminently liable, may not have been preserved and augmented during a long series of generations through natural selection.
This follows from unconscious selection during a long series of generations--that is, the preservation of the most approved individuals--without any wish or expectation of such a result on the part of the breeder.
Hence it occurred to me, that negroes and other dark races might have acquired their dark tints by the darker individuals escaping from the deadly influence of the miasma of their native countries, during a long series of generations.
The Plekhanof group replied in a long series of publications, partly original and partly translations from Marx and Engels, explaining the doctrines and aims of the Social Democrats.
It is evident, however, that they would have to remain on this stepping stone for a long series of years--until the representatives of the Proletariat obtained an overwhelming majority in the Chamber.
On the other hand, I do not wish to exhaust the reader's patience by a long series of multifarious details and conflicting arguments.
From a long series of observations I have come to the conclusion that the great majority of the Russian peasants, when dealing with the authorities, consider the most patent and barefaced falsehoods as a fair means of self-defence.
It is a fact worthy of attention," says the writer, "that a long series of evident apostasies coincides with the beginning of measures to confirm the converts in the Christian faith.
The purely empiric knowledge of statics it implies could only have been accumulated by a long series of more or less happy experiments.
No long series of military disasters was required to destroy all this charm; fifty years, or, at most, a century, of bad administration was enough.
It may have been predisposed towards them by the habits of admiration for the patient strength of the draught-ox and the destructive vigour of the eagle and the lion contracted during a long series of years.
These groups often came into violent collision, and in spite of mutual relations kept up through a long series of years, the line of demarcation between them ever remained distinct.
There must have been a long series of earlier stages below the plant and animal.
The effects of the recent revolution--the latest in a long series of civic convulsions, cruel and sterile--were evident on all sides.
From New York City came a long series of Democratic members, of whom the foremost was Thomas C.
His parliamentary training had been derived not only from his service as lieutenant- governor of the State, but from attendance on a long series of conventions, State and National.
A long series of lower aquatic Vertebrates (lancelets, lampreys, fishes) precedes the lungbreathing Amphibians, which appear for the first time in the Carboniferous period.
A long series of varied conceptions and stages of human culture here passes before our mental vision.
These "savages" are succeeded by peoples of a low civilisation, and from these again, by a long series of intermediate steps, we rise little by little to the more highly civilised nations.
I therefore determined to begin a long series of experiments with various plants, and these were continued for the following eleven years; and we shall see that in a large majority of cases the crossed beat the self-fertilised plants.
These several plants must therefore have been crossed during a long series of previous generations, and the artificial crosses in my experiments cannot have increased the vigour of the offspring beyond that of their progenitors.
A long series of experiments will first be given in Chapters 2 to 6.
I think no one who has read or heard, during a long series of years, the declarations of Mr. Gladstone on the question of self-government for Ireland, can be surprised at the tone of his present declarations.
In the case of Ireland they have all been abundantly admitted in a long series of measures, from Catholic Emancipation down to Lord O'Hagan's Jury Law and the Franchise and Redistribution Acts of a couple of years ago.
XVI The conjuration of the Pazzi was only one in a long series of similar conspiracies.
In the second they had undertaken to put Russia out, and after a long series of victories, Russia had escaped and was now beyond their grasp.
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