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 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. 
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.
The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others read more
The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms
Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not read more
Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles
 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.
 When you were a tadpole, and I was a fish,
 In the Palaeozoic time,
  And side by read 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. 
A mighty stream of tendency.
A mighty stream of tendency.
 The Lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man,
 And the man said, "Am read 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."