For my own part I am persuaded that everything advances by an
unchangeable law through the eternal constitution and association
of latent causes, which have been long before predestined.
[Lat., Equidem aeterna constitutione crediderim nexuque causarum
atentium et multo ante destinatarum suum quemque ordinem
immutabili lege percurrere.]
Quintus Curtius Rufus (Curtis Rufus Quintus)
Quotes , Source: De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni (V, 11, 10)
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When you were a tadpole, and I was a fish,
In the Palaeozoic time,
And side by side in the sluggish tide
We sprawled in the ooze and slime.
Langdon Smith
Quotes , Source: A Toast to a Lady (Evolution), printed in "The Scrap Book"
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent
homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
Herbert Spencer
Quotes , Source: First Principles (ch. XVI, par. 138)
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This survival of the fittest, which I have here sought to express
in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural
selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle
for life."
Herbert Spencer
Quotes , Source: Principles of Biology--Indirect Equilibration
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Out of the dusk a shadow,
Then a spark;
Out of the cloud a silence,
Then a lark;
Out of the heart a rapture,
Then a pain;
Out of the dead, cold ashes,
Life again.
John Banister Tabb
Quotes , Source: Evolution
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The Lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man,
And the man said, "Am I your debtor?"
And the Lord--"Not yet: but make it as clean as you can,
And then I will let you a better."
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Quotes , Source: By the Evolutionist
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Is there evil but on earth? Or pain in every people sphere?
Well, be grateful for the sounding watchword "Evolution" here.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Quotes , Source: Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (l. 198)
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Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good
And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Quotes , Source: Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (l. 200)
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And hear the mighty stream of tendency
Uttering, for elevation of our thought,
A clear sonorous voice, inaudible
To the vast multitude.
William Wordsworth
Quotes , Source: Excursion (IX, 87)
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