Fittest [adjective]

In the old mining days out West the law of the survival of the fittest held good, and he who survived had to be very fit indeed.

The doctrine of the survival of the fittest applies in all sciences, social as well as natural.

It is not the fittest that are preserved so much as it is the unfittest that are killed.

Look ye, Captain, we know what is fittest for our Prisoners.

The exploit shed such lustre on his name that he was soon regarded as the fittest candidate for the Presidency.

In the mythologies of the more civilised South American races, the idea of the survival of the fittest was otherwise expressed.

The principle of the survival of the fittest had resulted in the selection of the best men from all the previous expeditions.

Atavism, perhaps, the content to be just man again, following mans instinct to survive among the fittest.

But progress in the High School, by rigorous enforcement of the survival of the fittest, brings ultimately a chance for identity.

It was a case of survival, not of the fittest, but of that which the situation favored,—the fittest with reference to position.