Chap. III. 
STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE. 
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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 in¬ 
tervals, has to struggle for life, and to suffer great de¬ 
struction. 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. 
