The War of Nature is Not Incessant
All that we can do, is to keep steadily in mind that each organic being is striving to increase at a geometrical ratio; that each at some period of its life, during some season of the year, during each generation or at intervals, has to struggle for life, and to suffer great destruction. When we reflect on this struggle, we may console ourselves with the full belief, that the war of nature is not incessant, that no fear is felt, that death is generally prompt, and that the vigorous, the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply.
Charles Darwin, On the origin of species by means of natural selection,: Or, The preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life (1911)
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There are times in a creatures live when it is reproducing and others when it is struggling to survive. A positive explanation of survival of the fittest.
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