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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And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.
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Out of the dusk a shadow,
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Out of the dusk a shadow,
Then a spark;
Out of the cloud a silence,
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Out of the heart a rapture,
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Out of the dead, cold ashes,
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent
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