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.]
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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.
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.
Pouter, tumbler, and fantail are from the same source;
The racer and hack may be traced to one Horse;
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Pouter, tumbler, and fantail are from the same source;
The racer and hack may be traced to one Horse;
So men were developed from monkeys of course,
Which nobody can deny.
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.
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
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.
When I was a shepherd on the plains of Assyria.
When I was a shepherd on the plains of Assyria.
All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.
All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.
Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And read more
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.
