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Flicker of Wonder |
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poettothecars Senior Member
since 2006-02-10
Posts 1093New Zealand 
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5420 Flicker of Wonder 24 May 2006 Where were you when I needed your heart This place to wander upon her soul in an essence of emotional intricacy and depth Such involution of elaboration a thought line complex For where did she stand across a line, next to her lay No night alone, just to look into her eyes hazel or green, a flicker of wonder She in her centricity of an enlightened soul this magic of togetherness, a unity dissolved An escape for all life’s woes nothing to tamper with truth Where were you, in need of your heart maybe such reality may never be known “Survival of the fittest” is a phrase which is a concept relating to competition for survival or predominance. Originally applied by Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903), an English philosopher and prominent liberal political theorist, in his Principles of Biology of 1864. Spencer drew parallels to his ideas of economics with theories of evolution put forward by Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882) as ‘natural selection’. When after reading British Naturalist, Charles Darwin’s “Origin of Species” (first published in 1859), in his Principles of Biology of 1864, vol. 1, p. 444, Spencer wrote “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”. Herbert Spencer was known as the father of Social Darwinism, a school of thought that applied the evolutionist theory of survival of the fittest (a phrase coined by Spencer) to human societies. To be at the time considered by many to be one of the most brilliant men of his generation. © 2006 Christopher W Herbert (a New Zealand Poet) a poet who cares |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
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this is sort of sad, or at least it makes me feel sad in a way |
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