Famous quotes with Chain of being

• Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.

  Walter Gilbert
• A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
• is the most extended and extensive meditation on sex in the history of poetry. It charts the entire erotic spectrum, a great chain of being rising from matter to spirit, from the coarsest lust to chastity and romantic idealism. The poem’s themes of sex and politics are parallel: the psyche, like society, must be disciplined by good government. Spenser agrees with the classical and Christian philosophers on the primacy of reason over animal appetites. He looks forward to the Romantic poets, however, in the way that he shows the sex impulse as ultimately daemonic and barbaric, breeding witches and sorcerers of evil allure. Like the Odyssey, is a heroic epic in which the masculine must evade female traps or delays.

  Edmund Spenser
• An event is not triggered by a chain of being, but by a field of causes spreading horizontally, like creeping tide.

  Kevin Kelly (editor)

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