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{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = This survival of the fittest, which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life." | author = Herbert | work = Spencer—Principles of Biology. Indirect Equilibration. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Darwin)

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Out of the dusk a shadow, Then a spark; Out of the cloud a silence, Then a lark; Out of the heart a rapture, Then a pain; Out of the dead, cold ashes, Life again. John Banister Tabb—Evolution. | note = | topic = | page = 242 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The Lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man, And the man said, "Am I your debtor?" And the Lord—"Not yet: but make it as clean as you can, And then I will let you a better." | author = Tennyson | work = By an Evolutionist. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 242 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Is there evil but on earth? Or pain in every peopled sphere? Well, be grateful for the sounding watchword "Evolution" here. | author = Tennyson | work = Locksley Hall Sixty Years After. L. 198. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 242 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud. | author = Tennyson | work = Locksley Hall Sixty Years After. L. 200. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 242 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = When I was a shepherd on the plains of Assyria. Thoreau. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Pythagoras}}) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = And hear the mighty stream of tendency Uttering, for elevation of our thought, A clear sonorous voice, inaudible To the vast multitude. | author = Wordsworth | work = Excursion. DC. 87. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Arnold)

EXAMPLE Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. Burke—Letter I. On a Regicide Peace. Vol. V. P. 331. Illustrious Predecessor. Burke—Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents. (Edition 1775) | seealso = (See also {{sc|Fielding, Van Buren}}) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn? Burton | work = Anatomy of Melancholy. | place = Pt. I. Sec. II. Memb. 3. Subsect. 2. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 242 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = This noble ensample to his sheepe he gaf ,— That firste he wrought* and afterward he taughte. Chaucer—Canterbury Tales. Prologue. L. 496. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 242 }}