Note 89 — EVOLUTION, OLD AND NEW (continued 2)
Reading edition
This passage would seem to be the one which has suggested the following to the author of 'The Vestiges of Creation':—
"He [the Deity] has endowed the families which enjoy His bounty with an almost infinite fecundity, ... but the limitation of the results of this fecundity ... is accomplished in a befitting manner by His ordaining that certain other animals shall have endowments sure so to act as to bring the rest of animated beings to a proper balance" (p. 317, ed. 1853).