Crossword-Solution: ASCIDIAN 8 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Their ancestors the pious praise, And like to imitate their ways; How, then, does our first parent live, What lesson has his life to give? Th’ Ascidian tadpole, young and gay, Doth Life with one bright eye survey, His consciousness has easy play.

Then Age comes on! To Habit we Affix ourselves and are not free; Th’ Ascidian’s rooted to a rock, And we are bond-slaves of the clock; Our rocks are Medicine—Letters—Law, From these our heads we cannot draw: Our loves drop off, our hearts drop in, And daily thicker grows our skin.

But that beginning had emerged without any breach of continuity from a development which carries us back to a quadrimane ancestor, still further back (according to Darwin's conjecture) to a marine animal of the ascidian type, and then through remoter periods to the lowest form of organism.

Thought they, "An answer to that last It will be hard to find!" It was a clinching argument To the Neolithic Mind! Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman [1860-1935] MAN AND THE ASCIDIAN A Morality "The Ancestor remote of Man," Says Darwin, "is the Ascidian," A scanty sort of water-beast That, ninety million years at least Before Gorillas came to be, Went swimming up and down the sea.

Their ancestors the pious praise, And like to imitate their ways; How, then, does our first parent live, What lesson has his life to give? The Ascidian tadpole, young and gay, Doth Life with one bright eye survey, His consciousness has easy play.