...noise 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. The caged linnet in the spring...

...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 generalisation. In its light he...

...YOUNG AMERICAN. A Lecture read to the Mercantile Library Association, in Boston, February 7, 1844 289 NATURE. A SUBTLE chain of countless rings The next...man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. INTRODUCTION. Om age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies,...

...^* 3 :;S"<*'"SKS- 2 ^^i Notice also this prophetic stanza, prefixed to the same essay : " A subtile chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest...man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form." To state the religious doctrines of Emerson is a matter of delicacy. If religion were merely the equivalent...

...atom has two sides.” Notice also this prophetic stanza, prefixed to the same essay: “A subtile chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest...the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.” To state the religious doctrines of Emerson is a matter of delicacy. If religion were merely the equivalent...

...atom has two sides." Notice also this prophetic stanza, prefixed to the same essay : , " A subtile chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest...the -worm Mounts through all the spires of form." To state the religious doctrines of Emerson is a matter of delicacy. If religion were merely the equivalent...

...which contains a few of those sententious couplets that were afterward so common in his volumes. " A subtle chain of countless rings, The next unto the...man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form." It is to an earlier period than this that some of the love-poems belong—that, for example, " To Eva,"...

...publication of Darwin's discoveries, the insight of an American poet had declared the law of development. "A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings; And striving to be man, the worm Mounts through nil the spires of form." These lines appear as the...

...AMERICAN. A Lecture read before the Mercantile Library Association, in Boston, February 7, 1844. 341 NATURE. A SUBTLE chain of countless rings The next...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,...

...A Lecture read before the Mercantile Library Association, in Boston, February 7, 1844 . 341 NATUKE. 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,...