ah, but is bill being American ironic !
musket," preservation of favoured races " is I seem to remember the end of the title of darwins "...origin...."
I suppose he may have been referring to God. he did apparently include a reference to a creator in one run of origins...... and later wrote that he regretted doing so.
thankyou stu, for your helpful answer [that might be irony!]
why I thought there might be equation is that races [organisms?] favoured by being fitted best for their continuence onward, would therefore survive by being better able/less hindered to perpetuate progeny.
yes, I know i'm saying the same thing in two different ways, but that is the point I am suggesting.