... the amount of time that evolution required to unfold. He knew it needed lots of it. So by reminding us of the Newtonian cosmos, that very symbol of permanence and clockwork exactness, he can evoke the sort of time-line, the sort of chronology which fits the process of evolution. But there is something yet more unsettling. Darwin has been dealing ... ...

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... masses of blooming rabbit brush,""that olive-coloured plant that grows in high waves like a tossing sea, at this season covered with a thatch of bloom, yellow as gorse, or orange like marigolds"(p. 94) Despite Cather's expressive depiction of the frontier, she manages to refrain from glamorizing it. She instead offers an unbiased perception of the rough and ready circumstances that ... ...

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