John Arthur Thomson Quote

The vital striving and struggling characteristic of the realm of organisms is something apart from and finer than even the music of the spheres.


The System of Animate Nature: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the, University of St. Andrews in the Years 1915 and 1916 Volume 2, Lecture XI (p. 358), Henry Holt & Co. 1920


The vital striving and struggling characteristic of the realm of organisms is something apart from and finer than even the music of the spheres.

The vital striving and struggling characteristic of the realm of organisms is something apart from and finer than even the music of the spheres.

The vital striving and struggling characteristic of the realm of organisms is something apart from and finer than even the music of the spheres.

The vital striving and struggling characteristic of the realm of organisms is something apart from and finer than even the music of the spheres.