This propagative or plastic force in seeds in the latter kingdom, and in souls in the other, is from no other source than the conjugial sphere, which is that of good and truth, and which perpetually emanates and flows in from the Lord the Creator and Supporter of the universe; concerning which sphere, see above, n.
"The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love"
Emanuel Swedenborg
The survivors of the contest, those who continued to form the great bulk of the polity, would not be those "fittest" who got to the very top, but the great body of the moderately "fit," whose numbers and superior propagative power enable them always to swamp the exceptionally endowed minority.
"Aphorisms and Reflections from the works of T. H. Huxley"
Thomas Henry Huxley
Brook Farm, though American and Unitarian in its origin, became afterward the chief representative and propagative organ of Fourierism, as we shall ultimately show.
"History of American Socialisms"
John Humphrey Noyes