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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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.
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
Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good
And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.
Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good
And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.
When I was a shepherd on the plains of Assyria.
When I was a shepherd on the plains of Assyria.
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 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.
Children, behold the Chimpanzee;
He sits on the ancestral tree
From which we sprang in ages gone.
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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.
Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and
accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the read more
Observe constantly that all things take place 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.
The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival
of the Fittest is more accurate, and is read more
The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival
of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally
convenient.
