...thisearth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go ! Afound, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being ! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, which no eye can see, No glass can...

...how deep extend below : Vast chain of being ! which from God began, Nature ethereal, human ; nngel, man ; Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see,...glass can reach ; from infinite to thee, From thee to nothing.—On superior pow'rs ' Were we to press, inferior might on ours ; Or in the full creation...

...characteristic: See, thro' this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high, progressive life may go ! Around, how wide ! How deep extend below ! It was upon the unpleasant side of the picture that the gloomier minds preferred to dwell. It served...

...fervour See, thro' this air, this ocean, and this earth, 233 All matter quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go! Around, how...below! Vast chain of being, which from God began, Natures aethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect! what no eye can see, No glass can...

...less magnificant in the lowest classes then in the most sublime.20 And now Kant specifically quotes: Vast chain of being! which from God began, Nature's...glass can reach; from infinite to thee, From thee to nothing.21 It is Kant's contention that "creation is never finished." "It started once but will never...

...creatures".1* Kant's authority, however, is Pope: Vast chain of Being! which froi God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect,...can see, No glass can reach; from infinite to thee, Froi thee to Nothing. 23/ Ak I, pp. 174-175. The Appendix or Third Part of NTH entitled "On the Inhabitants...

...before. 6 Evolution and natural selection Vast chain of being! which from God began, Nature's aetherial, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach . . . From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. Alexander...

..."See, through this air, this ocean, and this earth, / All matter quick, and bursting into birth. / Above, how high, progressive life may go! / Around,...below! / Vast chain of Being! which from God began, / Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, / beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, / No glass...

...conflitto. Se ancora Pope poteva dire: «Vast chain of being! which from God began Natures aethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike»12,...

...centered by the metaphor of the chain. Vast chain of being, which from God began, Natures aethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect! what no eye can see, No glass can reach! . . . Where, one step broken the great scale's destroy'd: From Nature's chain whatever link you strike,...