beautyward

Updated: July 23, 2025

Was it that the struggle of things to survive produced as a sort of necessary by-product these intense preferences and appreciations, or was it that some mystical outer thing, some great force, drove life beautyward, even in spite of expediency, regardless of survival value and all the manifest discretions of life?

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - Ann Veronica, a modern love story