Das Leben ist der Guter hochstes nicht
Der Uebel grosstes aber ist die Schuld.
Life is not the supreme good, but the supreme evil is to realize one's guilt.
Das eben ist der Fluch der bosen That,
Das sie fortzeugend immer Boses muss gebaren.
The very curse of an evil deed is that it must always continue to engender evil.
Per scelera semper sceleribus certum est iter.
The way to wickedness is always through
wickedness.
Seneca—Agamemnon. CXV.
Si velis vitiis exui, longe a vitiorum exemplis
recedendum est.
If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must keep far from evil companions.
Seneca—Epistoloe Ad LucUium. CIV.
Solent suprema facere secures mala.
Desperate evils generally make men safe.
Seneca—Œdipus. CCCLXXXVI.
Serum est cavendi tempus in mediis malis.
It is too late to be on our guard when we
are in the midst of evils.
Seneca—Thyestes. CCCCLXXXVII.
Magna pars vulgi levis
Odit scelus spectatque.
Most of the giddy rabble hate the evil
deed they come to see.
Seneca—Troades. XI. 28.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones.
Julius Caesar. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 80.
But then I sigh; and, with a piece of Scripture,
Tell them that God bids us do good for evil.
Richard III. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 334.
We too often forget that not only is there a
"soul of goodness in things evil," but very generally a soul of truth in things erroneous.
Spencer—First Principles.
So far any one shuns evils, so far as he does
good.
Swedenborg—Doctrine of Life. 21.
Mala mens, malus animus.
A bad heart, bad designs.
Terence—Andria. I. 1. 137.
Aliud ex alio malum.
One evil rises out of another.
Terence—Eunuchus. V. 7. 17.
But, by all thy nature's weakness,
Hidden faults and follies known,
Be thou, in rebuking evil,
Conscious of thine own.
WmTTrER—What the Voice Said. St. 15.
EVOLUTION
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Matthew Arnold. Used also by Emerson.
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by change, and accustom thyself to consider
that the nature of the Universe loves nothing
so much as to change the things which are, and
to make new things like them.
Marcus Aurelius—Meditations. Ch.IV.36.
The rise of every man he loved to trace,
Up to the very pod O!
And, in baboons, our parent race
Was found by old Monboddo.
Their A, B, C, he made them speak,
And learn their qui, quae, quod, O!
Till Hebrew, Latin, Welsh, and Greek
They knew as well's Monboddo!
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.
W. H. Carruth—Each in his Own Tongue.
There was an ape in the days that were earlier,
Centuries passed and his hair became curlier;
Centuries more gave a thumb to his wrist—
Then he was a man and a Positivist.
Mortimer Collins—TheBritishBirds. St. 5.
I have called this principle, by which each
slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the
term of Natural Selection.
Charles Darwin—The Origin of Species.
Ch.III.
The expression often used by Mr. Herbert
Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more
accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.
Charles Darwin—The Origin of Species.
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| text = <poem>Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm,
Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form:
Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of flame
And soars and shines, another and the same.
Erasmus Darwin—Botanic Garden. Pt. I
Canto rV. L. 389.
Said the little Eohippus,
"I am going to be a horse,
And on my middle fingernails
To run my earthly course!
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I'm going to have a flowing tail!
I'm going to have a mane!
I'm going to stand fourteen hands high
On the Psychozoic plain!"
