...myth. Morality may not be possible in ant and bee and beaver and dog, but ethical principle is there. " Striving to be man the worm mounts through all the spires of form." Not that a man is recognized, and there is a conscious reach toward him, but because back of worm and...

...myth. Morality may not be possible in ant and bee and beaver and dog, but ethical principle is there. "Striving to be man the worm mounts through all the spires of form." Not that a man is recognized, and there is a conscious reach toward him, but because back of worm and...

...lines: A subtle chain of countless rings The next uuto the farthest brings; The eye reads omens were it goes And speaks all languages the rose ; And striving...man the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. Throughout this treatise, as well as in his earlier addresses and essays, are scattered sentences and...

...whose fate is linked with hers are compelled to be a part of the evils that follow in her train. " And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form." • Lll«»rv :ii.,l BocUl Sllhoue«™.' Copjriglit, 1881, by 1 1 -LI i -г л I :i. il ,. i - . PROFESSOR...

...merely a stage in the advance toward intelligence. This thought is expressed in that couplet of Emerson: "Striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form." All this might truly be said of the forms of activity lower than the worm. The most passive existence...

...will with nature. The principles involved in the essay may be analyzed as follows : I. Evolution. " A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the...farthest brings ; The eye reads omens where it goes, L. And speaks all languages the rose ; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts thru all the spires...

...from atom to animalcule and from animalcule to man, are linked in one organic creative process, — " A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings ; " — so that we cannot scientifically or logically separate man from the process of cosmical creation,...

...beauty of the whole." x, 439. Page 52. To the open ear it sings, Sweet the genesis of things. NATURE. A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the...man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. i, 7. This was published as early as 1849, ten years before Darwin's .Origin of Species ; it may have...

...the production of species by natural selection and the preservation of the fittest. "A subtle change of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings...man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form." "That they all may be one," prays the New Testament. Jesus and our nineteenth-century science adopts...

...ear it sings, Sweet the genesis of things. NATUEE. A subtle chain of countless rings The next in it o the farthest brings : The eye reads omens where it...man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. i, 7. This was published as early as 1849, ten years before Darwin's Origin of Species ' it may have...