Social environment and moral progress / by Alfred Russel Wallace.
- Alfred Russel Wallace
- Date:
- 1913
Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Credit: Social environment and moral progress / by Alfred Russel Wallace. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![XV] Heredity and Environment almost unknown poet, J. H. Dell, in the prefatory to his volume. The Dawning Grey. Never has our indebtedness to the classical writers been more powerfully insisted on than in the following lines :— Hear ye not the measured footfalls echoing solemn and sublime, From the groves of Academus down the avenues of Time ; See'st thou not the giant figures of the Sages of the Past, Through the darken'd long perspective on the living foreground cast ; Feel'st thou not the thrilling rhythm of the grand old Grecian line, Pulsing to the march of Progress, cadencing her hymn divine. All the forces of the present by the subtle sparks controlled, Of the quickening Grecian fire, of the mighty Lights of old. Through the dark and desolation of the centuries between. Still ' The Porch's ' glories glimmer, still ' The Gar¬ den's ' wreaths are green. Still the Zeno, still the Plato, still the Pyrrho points the page, Still the Philip fears the pebble—still Melitus dreads the Sage, Still the Dionysius trembles at the stylus of the age, 7 .](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b18022121_0130.JP2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
