...things of time are ours: — "To shape and use; arise and fly The reeling Faun, the sensual feast! Move upward, working out the beast, And let the ape and tiger die!" Springfield, December 19, 1877.16 Not only must literature be didactic, moralistic, as allusion to...

...introduced them in these lines from his proto -evolutionary poem, "In Memoriam, 118," published in 1850: Move upward, working out the beast, And let the ape and tiger die. Huxley, in 1893, could count on his audience catching his allusion. I missed it, for years, until I...

...battered with the shocks of doom To shape and use. Arise and fly The reeling Faun, the sensual feast; Move upward, working out the beast, And let the ape and tiger die. (cxvra, 19-28) Idleness is the great enemy of the will in Tennyson's poems as the source of the vice...

...had come to think of human destiny; the religion of progress, in Tennyson's words, called on man to Move upward, working out the beast And let the ape and tiger die. But that was not so easy, as Freud was to show; and also, at much the same time, Joseph Conrad in Heart...

...obviously a fault. So, again, in the larger life of the nation or the race, we account it no virtue that we "move upward, working out the beast, and let the ape and tiger die," but we are beginning to look upon resort to war, where conference and constructive statesmanship might...

...but it could be accommodated. Tennyson exhorted: Arise and fly The reeling Faun, the sensual feast; Move upward, working out the beast, And let the ape and tiger die. (In Memoriam, 118) The savage was that which European Man had left, or was leaving, behind, and imperial...

...batter'd with the shocks of doom To shape and use. Arise and fly The reeling Faun, the sensual feast; Move upward, working out the beast. And let the ape and tiger die.32 Section 123 caps a magnificent evocation of the no-longer-troubling geological transformations...

...from section CXVIII of In Memoriam (1850) . . . Arise and fly The reeling Faun, the sensual feast; Move upward, working out the beast, And let the ape and tiger die had long been employed as a means of representing human evolution as a positive process involving the...

...readership should deny as part of their human identity: Arise and fly The reeling Faun, the sensual feast; Move upward, working out the beast, And let the ape and tiger die. (In Memoriam, Section 118, lines 25-28) Tennyson appeals to foreign colonial animals here to characterize...

.... . . God forbid. I believe not only in nature, but in grace. ... I believe that if he will Strive upward, working out the beast, And let the ape and tiger die; if he will be even as wise as the social animals . . . then he will rise to a higher sphere; towards...