...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...

...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...

...life. And what is the scientific doctrine of Evolution, which Emerson sums up in the pregnant couplet, Striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form — what is all this but an ample confirmation of all that the Apostle's words imply and suggest ?...

...self-willing, and hence pure self-activity like himself a creator. But the second self-activity, in * "'A subtle chain of countless rings, The next unto the farthest brings ; knowing itself, knows its relation to the first — a relation of derivation, and, in knowing it,...

...philosophical standpoint."— 1'opular Science A'eics. SOCIOLOGY The eye reads omens where lt goe», And speaks all languages the rose ; And, striving...man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. —Nature, i., 7. THE fossil strata show us that Nature began with radimcntal forms, and rose to the...

...around to the detriment of other people's originality. You remember the famous Emersonian couplet,— " And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form." This is the keystone of Conway's claim that Emerson — not Darwin — first broached the idea of evolution....

...before, Asking to be combined. In 1836, Emerson in his " Nature," reiterated this grand prophecy : A subtle chain of countless rings, The next unto the...the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. In 1867, science had gone so far that it could announce the Unity of Creation ; the absolute Order and...

...shows its beauty in the flower. Nature is making towards humanity, and in humanity it finds itself. " Striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form." ' The geologist, physicist, chemist, by discovering the laws of nature, do not bind unconnected phenomena...