the general project passes by:

For see! the Mammoth went his ways,
became a mem'ory and a name;
While the half-reasoner with the hand*
survives his rank and place to claim.

* The Elephant.

Earthquake and plague, storm, fight and fray,
portents and curses man must deem
Since he regards his self alone,
nor cares to trace the scope, the scheme;

The Quake that comes in eyelid's beat
to ruin, level, 'gulf and kill,
Builds up a world for better use,
to general Good bends special Ill:

The dreadest sound man's ear can hear,
the war and rush of stormy Wind
Depures the stuff of human life,
breeds health and strength for humankind:

What call ye them or Goods or Ills,
ill-goods, good-ills, a loss, a gain,
When realms arise and falls a roof;
a world is won, a man is slain?

And thus the race of Being runs,