...inspired by the dawn of a great idea in the writer's mind —Evolution. It has a prelude of six lines— " A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the...man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form." In this essay occur such phrases as—" Every chemical change, from the rudest crystal up to the laws...

...Lecture read before the Mer- • cantile Library Association, in Boston, February 7, 1844 . 341 NATURE. A SUBTLE chain of countless rings The next unto the...man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. INTRODUCTION. OUB age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies,...

...February 7, 1844 . 341 NATUEE. A SUBTLE chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest hrings ; The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all...man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. INTRODUCTION. OUK age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies,...

...The far halloo of human voice ; The perfumed berry on the spray Smacks of 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...

...noise The far halloo of human voice; The perfumed berry on the spray Smacks of faint memories far away. `'b; M MrDpOqOrOsOtO K N M G G G G G M M M O O H N N M O OdO!O K F ) And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form The caged linnet in the spring...

...men up from low thoughts and sullen moods of helplessness and impiety. JM December 24, 1883. NATURE A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the...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,...

...Nature" might well be adopted as the tersest and most pregnant text for our evolution-philosophy : " A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the...man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form." We are brought by " Nature" into contact with the apostolic succession of the lords of thought, from...

...the Mercantile Library Association, in Boston, February 7, 1844 289 MISCELLANIES. NATURE. A SUBTIE chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest...man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. INTEODUCTION. OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies,...

...cette belle Nature qu'il contemple et il suit le mouvement ascensionnel dans l'échelle des êtres : "A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings ; Tho eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose ; And striving to be man the...

...chain of countless rings The next uuto the farthest brings ; The eyo roads omens where it goes, Anil speaks all languages the rose ; And, striving to be man, the worm Mount* through all the spires of form. V . r . •t ' V • . > INTRODUCTION. Ouu age is retrospective....