Literary notes about evolve (AI summary)
The word "evolve" has been employed in literature to capture a spectrum of transformative processes, both in abstract thought and physical change. In some texts, it illustrates a creative metamorphosis; for instance, a poet’s form must evolve in accordance with sense, suggesting that even artistic endeavors undergo developmental refinement [1]. In other works, evolution is portrayed as the natural progression of narrative or character, as seen in the crafting of a fantastic fable [2] or the gradual emergence of genius waiting to be awakened [3]. Authors also stretch the term into the realm of philosophy, where it is used to describe the inherent transformation of ideas—whether it is the inner evolution of prejudices [4] or an individual's system of thought asserting its independence [5]—and even to denote biological progression in response to challenges [6]. Thus, across literary examples, "evolve" consistently serves as a metaphor for change, growth, and the unfolding of complex processes in both life and thought [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14].
- The poet creates the idea first, and in order that this may be so the individual form must evolve according to sense.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross - He is, in fact, the very last person to evolve a fantastic fable.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. Wells - The superadded circumstance which would evolve the genius had not yet come; the universe had not yet beckoned.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot - Prejudices, however refractory to new evidence, evolve inwardly of themselves.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana - I evolve my own system of philosophy and all of you seem to crawl at my feet like so many insects or microbes.
— from Uncle Vanya: Scenes from Country Life in Four Acts by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - Morphology shows us how the senses and the nerves as well as the brain evolve in proportion as the difficulties of acquiring sustenance increase.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Nietzsche - To follow the opposite plan, however, and attempt directly to evolve a formula for wit, would be courting certain failure.
— from Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson - Here unhappily all evil influences seem to meet concentered; here, of all places, may jealousy and heat evolve itself.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle - The accidental presence of this or that ferment decides in which way it shall evolve.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James - The September world remains dark, fuliginous, as Lapland witch-midnight;—from which, indeed, very strange shapes will evolve themselves.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle - That which is cannot evolve; that which evolves is not.
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist by Nietzsche - Evolve images for the imagination of your audience to construct into pictures of their own.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie and J. Berg Esenwein - The community may evolve in many ways.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James - But it is absurd to suppose that these have an independent growth of their own, which left to itself would evolve a perfect speech.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey