Note 92 — Chapter VII · Characters as Adaptive and Specific.

Origin of Species, p. 72: Mr. Wallace himself quotes this passage (Darwinism, p. 141); but says with regard to it "the important word 'all' is probably an oversight." In the Appendix (II), on Darwin's views touching the doctrine of utility I adduce a number of precisely equivalent passages, derived from all his different works on evolution, and every one of them presenting "the important word 'all.'"