A mighty stream of tendency.
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.
Children, behold the Chimpanzee;
He sits on the ancestral tree
From which we sprang in ages gone.
I'm glad we sprang: had we held on,
We might, for aught that I can say,
Be horrid Chimpanzees to-day.
We seem to exist in a hazardous time,
Driftin' along here through space;
Nobody knows just when we begun,
Or how fur we've gone in the race.
Ben King—Evolution.
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.
Lord Neaves—The Origin of Species.
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| text = <poem>I was at Euphorbus at the siege of Troy.
Pythagoras.
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| text = <poem>Equidem a?terna constitutione crediderim nexuque causarum latentium et multo ante destinatarum suum quemque ordinem immutabili lege percurrere.
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 predestinated.
Qunvrus Cortius Rufus—De Rebus Geslis Alexandri Magni. V. 11. 10.
When you were a tadpole and I was a fish, in the Paleozoic time
And side by side in the sluggish tide, we sprawled in the ooze and slime.
Lanqdon Smith—A Toast to a Lady. (Evolution.) Printed in The Scrap Book, April, 1906.
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
| author = Herbert
| work = Spencer—First Principles. Ch. XVI. Par. 138; also Ch. XVII. Par. 145. He summaries the same: From a relatively diffused, uniform, and indeterminate arrangement to a relatively concentrated, multiform, and determinate arrangement.
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| text = <poem>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."
| author = Herbert
| work = Spencer—Principles of Biology. Indirect Equilibration.
| seealso = (See also {{sc|Darwin)
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| text = <poem>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.
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| text = <poem>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."
| author = Tennyson
| work = By an Evolutionist.
Is there evil but on earth? Or pain in every peopled sphere?
Well, be grateful for the sounding watchword "Evolution" here.
| author = Tennyson
| work = Locksley Hall Sixty Years After. L. 198.
Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good
And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.
| author = Tennyson
| work = Locksley Hall Sixty Years After. L. 200.
When I was a shepherd on the plains of Assyria.
Thoreau.
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| text = <poem>And hear the mighty stream of tendency
Uttering, for elevation of our thought,
A clear sonorous voice, inaudible
To the vast multitude.
| author = Wordsworth
| work = Excursion. DC. 87.
| seealso = (See also Arnold)
EXAMPLE
Example is the school of mankind, and they
will learn at no other.
Burke—Letter I. On a Regicide Peace. Vol.
V. P. 331.
Illustrious Predecessor.
Burke—Thoughts on the Cause of the Present
Discontents. (Edition 1775)
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| text = <poem>Why doth one man's yawning make another
yawn?
Burton
| work = Anatomy of Melancholy.
| place = Pt. I.
Sec. II. Memb. 3. Subsect. 2.
This noble ensample to his sheepe he gaf ,—
That firste he wrought* and afterward he taughte.
Chaucer—Canterbury Tales. Prologue. L.
496.
