The Executor by Mrs. Oliphant - HTML preview
Download the book in PDF, ePub, Kindle for a complete version.
THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES.
A NEW SONG.
HAVE you heard of this question the Doctors among,
Whether all living things from a Monad have sprung?
This has lately been said, and it now shall be sung,
Which nobody can deny.
Not one or two ages sufficed for the feat,
It required a few millions the change to complete;
But now the thing’s done, and it looks rather neat,
Which nobody can deny.
The original Monad, our great-great-grandsire,
To little or nothing at first did aspire;
But at last to have offspring it took a desire,
Which nobody can deny.
This Monad becoming a father or mother,
By budding or bursting, produced such another;
And shortly there followed a sister or brother,
Which nobody can deny.
But Monad no longer designates them well
They’re a cluster of molecules now, or a cell;
But which of the two, Doctors only can tell,
Which nobody can deny.
These beings, increasing, grew buoyant with life,
And each to itself was both husband and wife;
And at first, strange to say, the two lived without strife,
Which nobody can deny.
But such crowding together soon troublesome grew,
And they thought a division of labour would do;
So their sexual system was parted in two,
Which nobody can deny.
END
You may also like...
-
I don't work on bombs Fiction by D.A.SanfordI don't work on bombs
Reads:
6Pages:
36Published:
Sep 2026Raymond Burton is on his personal jet when military jets are now pacing his jet. His pilots are telling him that they must follow them otherwise they would be...
Formats: PDF
-
A bonded board Fiction by D.A.SanfordA bonded board
Reads:
26Pages:
30Published:
Sep 2026Ever had a thought of what your life would have been like if there were different circumstances, different events that happened in your life? How would you re...
Formats: PDF
-
The 24 Elders - The Second World (Series 5) Fiction by Holyone Tombari DodohThe 24 Elders - The Second World (Series 5)
Reads:
6Pages:
170Published:
May 2026After the fragile reset of The First World, time itself is bent once more—but not without consequence. As the 24 Elders rewind creation to humanity’s earliest...
Formats: PDF
-
The Ghost Named Charlie Fiction by K. E. WardThe Ghost Named Charlie
Reads:
13Pages:
25Published:
May 2026When a patient with schizophrenia was alone in her room with her thoughts, she began to see an actual ghost. Attempting to describe a social problem with enou...
Formats: PDF