 | Eleanor Vere Boyle - 1900 - 314 pages
...is down and his rings can be inspected, we know how neat and clear is their cyclometry, and of how " a subtle chain of countless rings the next unto the farthest brings" the 246 record of thirty-five years, from seed to maturity. Besides the two old Blenheim orange apple-trees,... | |
 | Henry Wood - 1901 - 312 pages
...or, in other words, an ideal which is always an impelling forward attraction. As Emerson puts it: — "And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form." As our former ideas regarding the impenetrability of matter give place to the reality of etheric vibration,... | |
 | 1902 - 766 pages
...will with nature. The principles involved in the eeeay may be analyzed as follows : I. Evolution. " A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the...the rose ; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts thru all the spires of form." It is worthy of remark that this stacza was composed before Darwin stated... | |
 | 1902 - 236 pages
...light, From death, lead us to immortality." BENEDICTION. 89 \ Ill The Brooklyn Ethical j Association The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all...man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. — Nature /'., 7. THE fossil strata show us that Nature began with rudimental forms, and rose to the... | |
 | William Cranston Lawton - 1902 - 398 pages
...dogma of modern science : — " A 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 little book puzzled, and in part shocked, most of the few critics who then noticed it. It can hardly... | |
 | Franklin Benjamin Sanborn - 1903 - 166 pages
...August, 1849,—who pasted into his diary the remarkable verse, about to be used as the new motto for Nature:— " A subtle chain of countless rings The...man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form." How much earlier this was written is yet unknown ; but it was the conclusion to which Emerson had been... | |
 | Charity Dye - 1903 - 248 pages
...wrote many pages to make plain the theory that was announced long before by Emerson in the six lines: "A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the...man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form." This subtle grasp of an idea usually belongs to poets of the first order, poets who are balanced and... | |
 | Edwin Doak Mead - 1903 - 364 pages
...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 contactwith the apostolic succession of the lords of thought, from... | |
 | University of Colorado. Department of Psychology and Education - 1903 - 564 pages
...rings Everything has to Tne next unto tne f art h e st brings; him a remote significance. Tne e ? e reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages...the worm Mounts through all the spires of form." (1) Browning's Death in the Desert. (3) English Traits, p. 203. (2) "Greatness." (4) Poems. (1) Not "natura... | |
 | Lester Frank Ward - 1903 - 646 pages
...described. It was thus, for example, that Emerson voiced the great truth of evolution when he said : — And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. 1 ! " Xatnre." by Ralph Waldo Emerson, originally published In September, 1S.TO. T* « pdit-'-nL* now... | |
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NATURE A SUBTLE chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings ; The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose ; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. 1 
