 | Alexander Mackie - 1906 - 156 oldal
...to a poet, and Tennyson has mastered it in all its significance as an indirect proof of Evolution. They say The solid earth whereon we tread In tracts of fluent heat began, And grew to seeming random forms, The seeming prey of cyclic storms, Till at the last arose the man. The same subject... | |
 | Geological Society of London - 1906 - 1042 oldal
...experiments described in this paper tend to prove that not only ' The solid enrth on which we stand, In tracts of fluent heat began, And grew to seeming-random forms, The seeming prey of cyclic storms," but that, even now, internal tracts which are in the ordinary sense solid, 'flow From form to form... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1906 - 648 oldal
...lime ; But trust that those we call the dead, Are breathers of an ampler day For ever nobler ends. They say, The solid earth whereon we tread In tracts of fluent heat began, Who throve and branch'd from clime to clime, The herald of a higher race, And of himself in higher... | |
 | 1903 - 592 oldal
...stone She cries, ' A thousand types are gone: I care for nothing, ail shall go.' • t • * * • The solid earth whereon we tread In tracts of fluent heat began, And grew to seeming random forms, The seeming prey of cyclic storms, Till at the last arose the man. Of these ideas... | |
 | 1909 - 664 oldal
...stanza: The solid earth whereon we tread In tracts of fluent beat began, And grew to seeming random forms, The seeming prey of cyclic storms, Till at the last arose the man. The doctrine of evolution is frequently used, as in " Maud," where the first verse is scarcely less... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1907 - 628 oldal
...lime ; But trust that those we call the dead, Are breathers of an ampler day For ever nobler ends. They say, The solid earth whereon we tread In tracts...prey of cyclic storms, Till at the last arose the man ; Who throve and branch'd from clime to clime, The herald of a higher race, And of himself in higher... | |
 | Graham Hough - 1978 - 260 oldal
...where the process of nature is given an optimistic interpretation, and one even compatible with Theism. They say, The solid earth whereon we tread In tracts...of cyclic storms, Till at the last arose the man; Who throve and branch'd from clime to clime, The herald of a higher race, And of himself in higher... | |
 | Basil Willey - 1980 - 310 oldal
...and lime; But trust that those we call the dead Are breathers of an ampler day For ever nobler ends. They say, The solid earth whereon we tread In tracts...of cyclic storms, Till at the last arose the man; Who throve and branch'd from clime to clime The herald of a higher race, And of himself in higher place,... | |
 | Crosbie Smith - 1998 - 424 oldal
...universe in a grand progression which promised the development of man into a 'crowning race': . . . They say The solid earth whereon we tread In tracts...of cyclic storms, Till at the last arose the man; And, moved through life of lower phase, Result in man, be born and think, And act and love, a closer... | |
 | Richard W. Bevis - 1999 - 442 oldal
...what had previously appeared fixed was revealed to be contingent, transitional. "They say," he wrote, The solid earth whereon we tread In tracts of fluent...seeming-random forms, The seeming prey of cyclic storms ... (Sec. 1 18, lines 7-11) "They" included Lyell and Laplace (whose nebular hypothesis reappears in... | |
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They say, The solid earth whereon we tread In tracts of fluent heat began, And grew to seeming-random forms, The seeming prey of cyclic storms, Till at the last arose the man... 
