In the mud of the Cambrian main Did our earliest ancestors dive; From a shapeless, albuminous grain We mortals are being derived.


The Evolutionist at Large, A Ballade of Evolution, Chatto & Windus. 1881

Grant Allen Quotes

In the mud of the Cambrian main Did our earliest ancestors dive; From a shapeless, albuminous grain We mortals are being derived.

In the mud of the Cambrian main Did our earliest ancestors dive; From a shapeless, albuminous grain We mortals are being derived.

In the mud of the Cambrian main Did our earliest ancestors dive; From a shapeless, albuminous grain We mortals are being derived.

In the mud of the Cambrian main Did our earliest ancestors dive; From a shapeless, albuminous grain We mortals are being derived.