...preserved from mass destruction: 'So careful of the type?' but no. F-'rom scarped cliff and quart ied stone She cries, 'A thousand types are gone; I care for nothing, all shall go.'27 The next thought, terrifying but inevitable, must be: do we humans too belong to this dismal...

...nature seeming 'So careful of the type ... So careless of the single life' but careless even of type, 'A thousand types are gone: / I care for nothing, all shall go' (LVI). The epigraph is a powerful allusion, explicitly and implicitly Tennysonian, dominating the best...

...of thing*. CHAPTER V, DEVELOPMENT. Are God »nd Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such eyfl dreams So careful of the type she seems, So careless...types are gone -, I care for nothing, all shall go," ' — TENNYSON, All Mature is tut art, unknown to thee ; All ehana, tKrutian, which thou canst not...

...read on, Tennyson understands the final outcome regardless of the flawed logic he used to get there, So careful of the type ? But no. From scarped cliff...thousand types are gone; I care for nothing all shall go. This Culture will fall and pass as a thousand others before it. ' 'That is most likely... And not just...

...species, the eminent poet Tennyson had a grim vision of Nature, "red in tooth and claw," proclaiming: "A thousand types are gone; /I care for nothing, all shall go." While he worked on his tablets, George Smith was on the lookout for passages that might confirm information...