On a snowy ASA web editing afternoon in New England I thought you
might be encouraged by the poetry of C. S. Lewis.
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Evolutionary Hymn (final verse)
On then! Value means survival-
Value. If our progeny
Spreads and spawns and licks each rival,
That will prove its deity
(Far from pleasant, by our present
Standards, though it well may be).
-C. S. Lewis
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From: The Cambridge Review 79 (November 30, 1957): 227; reprinted in C.S.
Lewis,
Poems, ed. Walter Hooper (London: Geoffrey Bles, 1964), pp. 55-56.
An article: "C. S. Lewis on Creation and Evolution: The Acworth Letters,
1944-1960,"
Gary B. Ferngren and Ronald L. Numbers, PSCF 48 (March 1996): 28-33. will
soon be available on the ASA Web site.
Jack Haas
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