Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which believes that there’s nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fiber and, in some cases, backbone.
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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.
A fire-mist and a planet,
A crystal and a cell,
A jellyfish and a saurian,
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A fire-mist and a planet,
A crystal and a cell,
A jellyfish and a saurian,
And caves where the cavemen dwell;
Then a sense of law and beauty,
And a face turned from the clod--
Some call it Evolution,
And others call it God.
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.
And hear the mighty stream of tendency
Uttering, for elevation of our thought,
A clear sonorous voice, read more
And hear the mighty stream of tendency
Uttering, for elevation of our thought,
A clear sonorous voice, inaudible
To the vast multitude.
The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival
of the Fittest is more accurate, and is read more
The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival
of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally
convenient.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine read more
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution read more
The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use
I have called this principle, by which, each slight variation, if
useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural read more
I have called this principle, by which, each slight variation, if
useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
Or ever the knightly years were gone
With the old world to the grave,
I was a read more
Or ever the knightly years were gone
With the old world to the grave,
I was a king in Babylon
And you were a Christian slave.
