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Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
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Charles Kingsley
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“In
tracts
of
fluent
heat
began,
The
seeming
prey
of
cyclic
storms,
The
home
of
seeming
random
forms,
Till,
at
the
last,
arose
the
man.”
And
we
know,
also,
that
these
forms,
“seeming
random”
as
they
are,
have
appeared
according
to
a
law
which,
as
far
as
we
can
judge,
has
been
on
the
whole
one
of
progress,—
lower
animals
(though
we
cannot
yet
say,
the
lowest)
appearing
first,
and
man,
the
highest
mammal,
“the
roof
and
crown
of
things,”
one
of
the
latest
in
the
series.
We
have
no
more
right,
let
it
be
observed,
to
say
that
man,
the
highest,
appeared
last,
than
that
the
lowest
appeared
first.
It
was
probably
so,
in
both
cases;
but
there
is
as
yet
no
positive
proof
of
either;
and
as
we
know
that
species
of
animals
lower
than
those
which
already
existed
appeared
again
and
again
during
the
various
eras,
so
it
is
quite
possible
that
they
may
be
appearing
now,
and
may
appear
hereafter:
and
that
for
every
extinct
Dodo
or
Moa,
a
new
species
may
be
created,
to
keep
up
the
equilibrium
of
the
whole.
This
is
but
a
surmise:
but
it
may
be
wise,
perhaps,
just
now,
to
confess
boldly,
even
to
insist
on,
its
possibility,
lest
any
should
fancy,
from
our
unwillingness
to
allow
it,
that
there
would
be
ought
in
it,
if
proved,
contrary
to
sound
religion.
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