...purpose in his eyes, 10 Who rolled the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer. Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's...tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed Who loved, who suffered countless ills, Who batded for the True, the Just, Be blown about the desert...

...beings were no more than animals. Who crusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law — Tho' Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed.'" Such feelings were not confined to literary people. TH Huxley, who refused to believe in any spiritual...

...plight of the Christian observer: "Who trusted God and love indeed; And love Creation's final law; Tho nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed..." There is no altruism in nature. We romanticize it. So, the mainstream churches in America are still...

...him fanes of fruidess prayer 140 Who trusted God was love indeed And love creation's final law Tho' Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine shrieked against his creed Who lov'd, who suffered coundess ills Who batded for the True, the Just Be blown about the desert dust...

...hard to integrate into his picture of God: I ... who trusted God was love indeed And love creations final law Though nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed. I prefer the wisdom of earlier ages: of Milton for example, a son of Christ's College, who defended...

...(1588-1679) 'The Life of Man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.' Leviathan, 1651, pt 1 ch.13 Man . . . Who trusted God was love indeed And love...and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed, Tennyson, In Memoriam Life is fragile - every living thing is engaged in a constant struggle to survive....

...is Nature's Priest . . . — WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, "ODE: INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY" (1807) Man . . . trusted God was love indeed, And love Creation's final...tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed — — ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON, "IN MEMORIAM" LVI (1850) And for all this, Nature is never spent; There...

...In Memoriam make this point powerfully: Man . . . Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creations final law Though Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed. The so-called 'naturalist' tradition in modern American fiction also reflects this ambivalence within...

...fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love, Creation's final law — Tho" Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed — Who loved, who suffer'd countless ills, Who battled for the True, the Just, Be blown about the...

...loving God the Father behind the scenes? Tennyson, writing before Darwin, clearly posed the problem:45 Man, who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law Tho' Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shriek'd against his creed — Darwin himself corresponded...