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...can so far As each beast's limit, perfect to an end, Nor conscious that they know, nor craving more ; Creeps ever on from fancies to the fact, And in this...is, they are, Man partly is and wholly hopes to be. Such progress could no more attend his soul Were all it struggles after found at first And guesses...

...this very character of imperfection, ing scope, as it does, for indefinite growth and igress :— " Progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's...they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be." d it is by a succession of failures, stimulating her aspirations and endeavours, that we may ch at...

...as it does, for indefinite growth and progress “Progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not¿God's and not the beasts'; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.” And it is by a succession of failures, stimulating higher aspirations and endeavours, that we may reach...

...very character of imperfection, giving scope, as it does, for indefinite growth and progress:— " Progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's...they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be." And it is by a succession of failures, stimulating higher aspirations and endeavours, that we may reach...

...of the lower creatures, and, of course, wanting in the Deity in whom all perfections are combined. " Progress, man's distinctive mark alone Not God's and not the beasts'; God is, they are, Man partly in, and wholly hopes to be." [June, This idea of progress the poet twines among nearly all his conceptions...

...expect great things; they realize great things. The pass-word of the generation is " progress :" ..." progress, man's distinctive mark alone. Not God's...is, they are, Man partly is and wholly hopes to be." However cruelly yesterday's "pent-up Utica" may have contracted our powers, we are today well on our...

...progress : man is " Lower than God who knows all and can all, Higher than beasts which know and can so far Creeps ever on from fancies to the fact, And in this...converting air Into a solid he may grasp and use, Fiijds progrès.*^ man's distinctive mark r As each beast's limit, perfect to an end, Nor conscious...

...can so far As each beast's limit, perfect to an end, Nor conscious that they know, nor craving more; While man knows partly but conceives beside, Creeps...is, they are, Man partly is and wholly hopes to be. Such progress could no more attend his soul Were all it struggles after found at first And guesses...

...moral progress. His creed is found in lines like these from "A Death in the Desert:" . . . "Man . . . Creeps ever on from fancies to the fact, And in this striving 'Dedication to Sordello. Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone— Not God's and not the beast's...