20 THE BIOCOSMOS GENERAL INTRODUCTION. 



the scientist, In the First Part of Faust he 

 has set forth the Evolution of Mephistophiles, 

 ' ' the Spirit that denies, ' ' who unfolds through 

 a variety of shapes starting with the deny- 

 ing Faust and concluding with the appear- 

 ance of the traveling scholastic. Nor is this 

 the only case of the Evolution of Forms cor- 

 responding to internal character, in the poem, 

 whose adequate interpretation depends 

 largely upon an insight into this fact. 



Interesting by way of comparison with 

 Faust are the utterances of Tennyson in re- 

 gard to Evolution. They are in the form of 

 external reflections rather than woven into 

 the very texture of the poem, as we find in the 

 case of Goethe. The striking lines of In 

 Memoriam have been often cited: 



So careful of the type she seems, 

 So careless of the single life, 



alluding to Nature. Then comes the peculiar 

 Darwinian response : 



careful of the type?" but no 

 From scarped cliff and quarried stone 

 She cries: "A thousand types are gone: 

 I care for nothing, all shall go." 



Such is the negative conclusion of Tenny- 

 son, in accord with his theme and doubtless 



