The difficulty of the case arises, of course, from the circumstance of there being no evidence whatever as to the actual fact of Survivorship.
"Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1."
Samuel Warren
Mr. Martineau speaks of the "Survivorship of the better," as though that were the statement of the law; and then adds that the alleged result cannot be inferred "except on the assumption that whatever is better is stronger too."
"Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I"
Herbert Spencer
More than half of the antiquities of the world have been lost; and this alone gives us the odds against an instance of Survivorship.
"The Ethnology of the British Islands"
Robert Gordon Latham