...unto the farthest brings; The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. INTRODUCTION OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies,...

...unto the farthest brings ; The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose ; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. INTRODUCTION. OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies,...

...unto the farthest brings ; The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose ; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form .1 -i: i INTRODUCTION. OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes...

...unto the farthest brings ; The eye rcuJ^ omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the ruse ; And striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.' "Let me now show that we can not tell how far conscious life descends from man, as we have seen that...

...unto the farthest brings ; The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose ; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. INTRODUCTION. OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It 'writes biographies,...

...faint memories far away. A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings, And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. I saw the bud-crowned Spring go forth, Stepping daily onward north To greet staid ancient cavaliers...

...ascent : Everything with A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings ; And, striving to be man. the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. In this last couplet he expressed integrally Darwin's doctrine of evolution many years before the "...

...unto the farthest brings ; The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. INTRODUCTION. OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies,...

...unto the farthest brings: The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose. And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form." It is to an earlier period than this that some of the love-poems belong, — that for example, " To...

...faint memories far away. A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings ; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. I saw the bud-crowned Spring go forth, Stepping daily onward north To greet staid ancient cavaliers...