End of A Critical Examination of "On The Origin of Species".
THE DARWINIAN HYPOTHESIS.*
([Footnote] *'Times', December 26th, 1850.)
DARWIN ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES.
There is a growing immensity in the speculations of science to which no human thing or thought at this day is comparable. Apart from the results which science brings us home and securely harvests, there is an expansive force and latitude in its tentative efforts, which lifts us out of ourselves and transfigures our mortality. We may have a preference for moral themes, like the Homeric sage, who had seen and known much:—
"Cities of men
And manners, climates, councils, governments";
yet we must end by confession that
"The windy ways of men
Are but dust which rises up
And is lightly laid again,"