"Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud."
— Alfred Tennyson

January 1, 1970

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Alfred Tennyson, Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886), line 200; Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 241-42.