That the deterministic strain in this tremendous Vorstellung of a cyclic rhythm throbbing in the universe entangles its author's fanatical belief in evolution in a rather serious self-contradiction, does not detract from its spiritual lure, nor from its wide suggestiveness, however incapable it may be of scientific demonstration.
"Prophets of Dissent Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy"
Otto Heller
For some reason which is not clearly apparent, both he and Aeschylus drew more largely from the cyclic poets than from 'our Homer'.
"The Seven Plays in English Verse"
Sophocles
They are the people who complain of the cyclic quality of their moods and purposes.
"The Glands Regulating Personality"
Louis Berman, M.D.