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Thomas Henry Huxley 



" With them the seed of wisdom did I sow, 

 And with mine own hand wrought to make it grow ; 



And this was all the Harvest that I reaped — 

 'I came like "Water, and like Wind I go.' 



" Into this Universe, and IV/ty not knowing 

 Nor IVhcnce, like water willy-nilly flowing ; 

 And out of it, like Wind along the Waste 

 I know not Whither, willy-nilly blowing." 



Btit, the more profoundly does the conception of evolu- 

 tion lay hold of human thought, the more inevitable it 

 becomes to recognise that man and all that is best in 

 man— his aspirations, ideas, virtues, and practical and 

 abstract justice and goodness— are just as much the 

 product of the cosmic process and part of the Cos- 

 mos as the most sinister results of the struggle for 

 existence. 



