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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].
  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. The superadded circumstance which would evolve the genius had not yet come; the universe had not yet beckoned.
    — from Middlemarch by George Eliot
  4. Prejudices, however refractory to new evidence, evolve inwardly of themselves.
    — from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. The community may evolve in many ways.
    — from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James
  14. 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

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