 Acknowledged blindly by whatever man We ever knew or heard of in this world. " Will you have why and wherefore, and the fact Made plain as pikestaff? " modern Science asks. " That mass man sprung from was a jelly-lump Once on a time ; he kept an after...  Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau: Saviour of Society - Page 66by Robert Browning - 1871 - 148 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles W. Vincent, James Mason - Science - 1873 - 378 pages
...Thus, Browning, in one of his most recent poems, said : — That mass man sprung from was a jelly lump Once on a time ; he kept an after course Through fish and insect, reptile, bird, or beast, Till he attained to be an ape at last. Or last but one. It was hardly necessary to point... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1873 - 900 pages
...Thus ßrowuing, in one of his most recent poems, said :— That mass man sprung from was a jelly lump Once on a time ; he kept an after cour.se Through fish and insect, reptile, bird, or beast, Till he attained to be an ape at last, Or last but one. It was hardly necessary to point... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Insects - 1874 - 128 pages
...Thus Browning, in one of his recent poems, says : — " That mass man sprang from was a jelly lump Once on a time ; he kept an after course Through fish...and beast, Till he attained to be an ape at last, Or last but one."1 This theory, though it would be regarded by many as a fair statement of his views,... | |
 | Henry Macnaughton Jones - 1874 - 100 pages
...written, Mr. Darwin's views are still misunderstood : — ' That mass, man sprang from, was a jelly lump. Once on a time he kept an after course Through fish...and beast, Till he attained to be an ape, at last, Or last but one.' This theory, though it would be regarded by many as a fair statement of his views,... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Insects - 1874 - 132 pages
...Thus Browning, in one of his recent poems, says :— '' That mass man sprang from was a jelly lump Once on a time ; he kept an after course Through fish and insect, reptile, iiird, and beast, Till he attained to be an ape at last, Or last but one. ' ' 1 This theory, though... | |
 | William Francis Ainsworth - 1875 - 740 pages
...interwoven with it. To tbe student it may not matter if— " That mass man sprang from was a jelly lump Once on a time ; he kept an after course Through fish and inaect, reptile, bird, and beast, Tiil he attained to be an apu at last, Or last but ona." (Browning.)... | |
 | Andrew Wilson - Biology - 1879 - 450 pages
...wherein, speaking of the descent of man, he says : — "That mass man sprang from was a jelly lump Once on a time ; he kept an after course Through fish...and beast, Till he attained to be an ape at last, Or last but one." Now, as explanatory of Mr. Darwin's theory of the " Descent of Man," Mr. Browning's... | |
 | Samuel Wainwright - Evolution - 1881 - 348 pages
...terragen :— these are the generations of primeval man." — The New Cosmogony. NOTE F. PAGE 223. " ' Will you have why and wherefore, and the fact Made...bird and beast, Till he attained to be an ape at last Or last but one.' " " Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau : Saviour of Society." By Robert Browning. Smith,... | |
 | Andrew Wilson - Evidence - 1883 - 408 pages
...incorrect, when he says in " Prince Hohenstiel Schwangau " — That mass man sprang from was a jelly lump Once on a time ; he kept an after course Through fish...and beast, Till he attained to be an ape at last, Or last but one, — then, according to the poet's rendering of man's evolution, his descent would... | |
 | Robert Browning - English poetry - 1889 - 362 pages
...And nothing else but man in the universe — That, while he feels with man (to use man's speech) F the little things of life, its fleshly wants Of food...bird and beast, Till he attained to be an ape at last Or last but one. And if this doctrine shock In aught the natural pride "... Friend, banish fear, The... | |
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