Arts & Sciences
Darwin
From A New Library of Poetry and Song, ed. William Cullen Bryant (1877)
Arts & Sciences
There was an ape in the days that were earlier;
Centuries passed, and his hair grew curlier;
Centuries more gave a thumb to his wrist,
Then he was a Man and a Positivist.
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