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EVOLUTION OF VEGETAL LIFE 



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77' r//p /v'f/f/x omens where it goes, 

 And .speoA-N all hnii/uages the rose ; 

 And, sii-iriit</ to hi' infill, thf- 1C 

 Mtinutx tlirouij/i all the spires of form. 



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THE fossil strata show us th:it Nuturr ht-^an with rutlimental forms, and rose 

 to the more complex a> fast as the oarth was fit for their dwelling-place; and 

 that the lower perish as tin- hi^hrr appear. Very few of our race can be .said to 

 l>e yet finished men. \\ < -till earry sticking to its some remains of the preced- 

 ing interior quadruped organization. . . The age of the quadruped is to go out, 

 the age of the brain and of the heart is to come in. And if one shall read the 

 future of the race hinted in the organic effort of Nature to mount and melior- 

 ate, and the corre.-ponding impure to the Better in the human being, we shall 

 dare affirm that there is nothing he will not overcome and convert, until at last 

 culture shall absort i the chaos and gehenna. He will convert the Furies into 

 Muses and the hells into benefit. Ciiltun-. 



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