...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...

...i,ext unto the farti,est brings; The eye reads oniemis where it goes, And speaks all languages time rose; And striving to be man the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.” This is an anticipation of Evolution, not from Darwin's but from Plato's point of view,— nature struggling...

...Self-activity as the First Principle ? § 94. The self-active is self-determining and self-knowing, sub1 " 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." This is Emerson's statement...

...Self-activity as the First Principle ? § 94. The self-active is self-determining and self-knowing, sub1 " 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." This is Emerson's statement...

...halloo of human voice; The perfumed berry on the spray Smacks of faint memories far away. 19G POEMS. 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...

...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...

...and lift 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...the •worm Mounts through all the spires of form. INTRODUCTION. OUK 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...brings ; The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks oil languages the rose ; And striving to be man the worm Mounts through all spires of form." i L'homme...

...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 . V • . > INTRODUCTION. r . •t ' Ouu age is retrospective....

...Real shining through the apparent, seeking constantly higher and clearer expression of itself. Thus: 'A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the...farthest brings; The eye reads omens where it goes, And speak-* all languages the rose; And striving to be man the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.'...