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When you were a tadpole, and I was a fish, In the Palaeozoic time, And side by side in the sluggish tide We sprawled in the ooze and slime. - Langdon Smith, A Toast to a Lady (Evolution), printed in "The Scrap Book" Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity. - Herbert Spencer, First Principles (ch. XVI, par. 138) This survival of the fittest, which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life." - Herbert Spencer, Principles of Biology--Indirect Equilibration Out of the dusk a shadow, Then a spark; Out of the cloud a silence, Then a lark; Out of the heart a rapture, Then a pain; Out of the dead, cold ashes, Life again. - John Banister Tabb, Evolution Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change. - Lord Alfred Tennyson The Lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man, And the man said, "Am I your debtor?" And the Lord--"Not yet: but make it as clean as you can, And then I will let you a better." - Lord Alfred Tennyson, By the Evolutionist Is there evil but on earth? Or pain in every people sphere? Well, be grateful for the sounding watchword "Evolution" here. - Lord Alfred Tennyson, Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (l. 198) Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud. - Lord Alfred Tennyson, Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (l. 200) When I was a shepherd on the plains of Assyria. - Henry David Thoreau And hear the mighty stream of tendency Uttering, for elevation of our thought, A clear sonorous voice, inaudible To the vast multitude. - William Wordsworth, Excursion (IX, 87) Displaying page 2 of 2 for this topic: << Prev 1 [2]
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