But what of the beginnings—to come back to the question—the first stirrings in the biological twiglet of evolution, when that splendid solid-state apparatus had not yet developed and a few smallish organic molecules were all that was?
Vegetables can carry the day without doing a meatish drag show.
[W]hen the bare boughs of a tree intervened between her and the rising bright but deep red sun, frosted as the twigs were, on them sat a merry flock of sparrows, the feathers on their breasts bluffed out, as if they had donned warm winter spencers to shield them from the biting blast.
Obscurity, indeed, is painful to the mind as well as to the eye ; but to bring light from obscurity, by whatever labour, must needs to be delightful and rejoicing.
