...qualities. It begins thus, with statements which were then paradoxes, but are now commonplaces : — " Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, criticisms. The foregoing generations beheld God and Nature face to face ; we, through their eyes....

...accumulation of specific advantages will be summed up in a new genus. And thus, as Emerson has said, — " Striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form." Now, to the merely scientific mind evolution is simply a scientific generalization. In its light he...

...trend of life from protozoon to man, and. within the human range, from animal to soul ; seeing how, " Striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form," — • in this larger survey, we are taking no unjustifiable liberty with the facts when we chant...

...A Lecture read before the Mercantile Library Association, in Boston, February 7, 1844 . 341 NATURE. A SUBTLE chain of countless rings The next unto the...And speaks all languages the rose ; And, striving to he man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. INTRODUCTION. OUR age is retrospective. It...

...his thoughts and utterance. The the teacher. same gpirjt breathes through a thousand variant words : Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, criticisms. The foregoing generations beheld God and Nature face to face ; we, through their eyes....

...trend of life from protozoon to man, and, within the human range, from animal to soul ; seeing how, " Striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form," — in this larger survey, we are taking no unjustifiable liberty with the facts when we chant our...

...fittest is the most able to conquer by ideas. All matter struggles to assume the form of man, or, " Striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form." Souls may exist without this doctrine, but they are not in the Paradise and the Holy Spirit does not...

...echoes in the walls and ceiling ! Among our New York Jews, it may be said with material literalness, a subtle chain of countless rings the next unto the farthest brings. If one had wished to obtain a bird's-eye-view of the metropolitan Jewish world, to behold in indiscriminate...

...astronomer. Emerson seems to have had some similar notion in his head when he wrote these lines : — "A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the...the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.'* The Neoplatonists did not state the precise manner in which they conceived that their paradigms of...

...astronomer. Emerson seems to have had some similar notion in his head when he wrote these lines : — " A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the...be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.'1 The Neoplatonists did not state the precise manner in which they conceived that their paradigms...