...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...

...seen by the astronomer. Emerson seems to have had some similar notion in his head when he wrote these lines : — "A subtle chain of countless rings 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...

...seen by the astronomer. Emerson seems to have had some similar notion in his head when he wrote these lines : — " A subtle chain of countless rings 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...

...somewhat askance at science ; but in the 1840 edition of " Nature " he prefixed some verses that said : " And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form." This came out ten years before Darwin's •• Origin of Species." and twenty years sooner than "The...

...Vision.' And so Emerson prefixes to his essay certain lines which inculcate the same lesson : — " The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose." For in nature man does not feel himself alone and unacknowledged. " The fields and woods nod to me...

...marsh in the flipper of the saurian." A view afterwards condensed into his memorable couplet — " Striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form." But he was far from regarding the progress of development as the result of a chance collision of atoms,...

...not, then, with Emerson, ' an aggregation of disassociated, independent beings, but a living whole : " A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings. " This is the essence of the social gospel of to-day, which demands that no man shall live unto himself...

...was beforehand with the savant. The motto to "Nature'' was: "A subtle chain of countless rings Tho next unto the farthest brings. The eye reads omens...man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form." This was no lucky guess of a moment. It was his habitual vision. In the " Ode to Bacchus," he asks...

..."A STUDY OF PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANITY," "THE EVOLUTION OF THE EARTH," "EVOLUTION OF MORALS," ETC., ETC. The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all...man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. — Mature, i., 7. THE fossil strata show us that Nature began with rudimental forms, and rose to the...