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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
A mighty stream of tendency.
A mighty stream of tendency.
 The stream of tendency in which all things seek to fulfill the 
law of their being.  
 The stream of tendency in which all things seek to fulfill the 
law of their being. 
 Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm,
 Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form:
  Mounts from her read more 
 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. 
 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. 
 Is there evil but on earth? Or pain in every people sphere?
 Well, be grateful for the sounding watchword read more 
 Is there evil but on earth? Or pain in every people sphere?
 Well, be grateful for the sounding watchword "Evolution" here. 
 We seem to exist in a hazardous time,
 Driftin' along here through space;
  Nobody knows just when read more 
 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. 
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.
 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.