Stones from The Quarry or, Moods of Mind. By Henry Browne [i.e. Henry Ellison] |
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DARWIN, “SPECIES BY SELECTION,”
AND EMPEDOCLES. |
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DARWIN, “SPECIES BY SELECTION,” AND EMPEDOCLES.
Could that great genius start to life again,After two thousand and odd hundred years,
And see the first-born of his hopes and fears
The heir of fame, who stature did attain
But small in his own Greece, such growth now gain,
Through our new Science here, à la moderne, who rears
Her nurslings on fine “patent food” of hers,
He'd get his principal, which so long has lain
At interest, back. But soft there; not so fast!
Another parent lays claim to the child;
This new brain-born Minerva, not the past;
The true sire after all may be beguiled!
A Solomon must lots between them cast,
The child be after the real parent styled.
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