“How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem at a distance of a few million miles.”
"The Star", final line, first published in The Graphic, Christmas issue (1897)
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De iride (On the rainbow) Note this prediction of optical scientific instruments like the telescope and microscope, not to be utilized until 250 years later.

Vol. I, Part III: The Evolution of Life, Ch. 3 : General Aspects of the Evolution Hypothesis; compare: "As nine months go to the shaping an infant ripe for his birth, / So many a million of ages have gone to the making of man", Alfred Lord Tennyson, Maud (1855)
Principles of Biology (1864)

Glimpses of Bengal http://www.spiritualbee.com/tagore-book-of-letters/ (1921)

Quoted by K.Mather, Heredity 30, 89–91, 1973.
Since 1960s

Source: The New Party - (1961), Chapter 5, O Canada, p. 55

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1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)