Evolution Quotes

Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good
And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.

Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good
And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.

When I was a shepherd on the plains of Assyria.

When I was a shepherd on the plains of Assyria.

And hear the mighty stream of tendency
Uttering, for elevation of our thought,
A clear sonorous voice, more

And hear the mighty stream of tendency
Uttering, for elevation of our thought,
A clear sonorous voice, inaudible
To the vast multitude.

When you were a tadpole, and I was a fish,
In the Palaeozoic time,
And side by more

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.

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent
homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent
homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

This survival of the fittest, which I have here sought to express
in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. more

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."

Out of the dusk a shadow,
Then a spark;
Out of the cloud a silence,
more

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.

The Lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man,
And the man said, "Am more

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."

Is there evil but on earth? Or pain in every people sphere?
Well, be grateful for the sounding watchword more

Is there evil but on earth? Or pain in every people sphere?
Well, be grateful for the sounding watchword "Evolution" here.

For my own part I am persuaded that everything advances by an
unchangeable law through the eternal constitution and more

For my own part I am persuaded that everything advances by an
unchangeable law through the eternal constitution and association
of latent causes, which have been long before predestined.
[Lat., Equidem aeterna constitutione crediderim nexuque causarum
atentium et multo ante destinatarum suum quemque ordinem
immutabili lege percurrere.]