EVOLUTION.
[To Tax EDITOR OT THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—The conclusions of your excellent article of the 7th, .entitled "M. Daudet on Evolution," have been anticipated by Lord Tennyson in the poem, "By an Evolutionist," in his recent volume. I quote the last stanza have climbed to the snows of Age, and I gaze at a field in the past,
Where I sank with the body at times in the sloughs of a low desire,
But I hear no yelp of the beast, and the Man is quiet at last As he stands on the heights of his life with a glimpse of a height that is higher."
Compare Browning's "Rabbi Ben Ezra :"— " Grow old along with me !
The best is yet to be,
The last of life, for which the first, was made ;
Our times are in His hand Who saith, A whole I planned ; Youth shows but half ; trust God ; see all, nor be afraid ! '
For thence,—a paradox
Which comforts while it mocks,— Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail;
What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me ; A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale."
—I am, Sir, 8ro.,
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