| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| NUMBER: | 6684 |
| AUTHOR: | Charles Robert Darwin (1809–1882) |
| QUOTATION: | The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | The Origin of Species. Chap. iii. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| | Note 1.
This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called “natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.”—Herbert Spencer: Principles of Biology. Indirect Equilibration. [back] |
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