Crossword-Solution: TRANSILIENT 11 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Showing--in spite of Jove's decree-- How mortals rode in impious arks Transilient o'er the sacred sea, How there was not beneath the sun A task so tough but what he'd back us Somehow to go and see it done (Such was the _flair_ of Flaccus); Little he guessed how wind and tide Should be the sport of human skill; How steel and steam should mock their pride And get the deep reduced to _nil_; How we should come in course of years, Either by cable or Marconi, To hold across the hemispheres A conversazione.

Garbowski (Jena, 1903): “The greater part of what is usually referred to the so-called fundamental biogenetic law depends on illusion, since all things undeveloped or imperfect must bear a greater or less resemblance one to another.” _ 32 I.e._, The occurrence of saltatory, transilient, or discontinuous variations or mutations.

Biologically regarded, a genius is a transilient variation on the up-grade of psychical evolution, of such magnitude that it stands apart as a new mental pattern, as a peculiar combination of moods at a high potential, as a secret amalgam.

Such words as "freaks" and "sports" express a truth, suggested by Mr Galton's phrase "transilient variations," that organisms may pass with seeming abruptness from one form of equilibrium to another.

From our frankly biological point of view there seems considerable warrant for the suggestion that Man arose as a saltatory or transilient variation or "sport" in a gregarious Simian stock, which was not too hard-pressed by a struggle for subsistence either as regards food or climate, which was not too severely menaced by ever-persecuting stronger foes, which lived in conditions implying some measure of temporary isolation, in-breeding, and daily "brain-stretching" education.