Darwin Among the Poets

accepted advance agnosticism Alfred Noyes animal anthropomorphic appears argument beast beauty belief blind brain Browning's century concept consciousness contemporary creation creative creatures creed cruelty Darwin Darwinian Darwinian theory death declares divine doctrine doubt dream Dynasts Earth ence Erasmus Darwin eternal evil evolution evolutionary idea evolutionary principle evolutionary theory existence faith feels force George Meredith God's Goethe Hardy Hardy's hope human hypothesis ideal immortality individual instincts intuition John Masefield Lamarck life's lives Locksley Hall Lucretius man's material materialistic Memoriam ment Meredith metaphysical mind modern mood mystical nature Nature's Origin of Species orthodox pantheism Paracelsus passage perfection phenomena philosophic physical poem poetic poetry poets primitive progress race rational religion religious reveal says scientific scientists seemed sense sonnet Sordello soul spirit spiritual evolution struggle for survival things Thomas Hardy thought tion truth ture universe vision whole