EQUILIBRATION • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Equilibration

... 1864, vol. i. pp. 452, 468) takes a different view; and in one place remarks: "We have seen reason to think that, as fast as essential faculties multiply, and as fast as the number of organs that co-operate in any given function increases, indirect equilibration through natural selection becomes less and less capable of producing specific adaptations; and remains fully capable only of maintaining the general fitness of constitution to conditions." This view that natural selection can do little in modifying the higher animals surprises ...

— The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) • Charles Darwin

... are the steps by which we advance towards this state. And the ultimate abolition of all limits to the freedom of each, save those imposed by the like freedom of all, must, result from the complete equilibration between man's desires and the conduct necessitated by ...

— Moral Science; A Compendium of Ethics • Alexander Bain