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Is there really any such thing as progress? And does that of the present time merely consist in follow ing the downward slope? There are those who con sider that the world was not intended to be very good, and that it is quite useless trying to make it better; but that a man has the chance of making his account with the world as it is on terms fairly satisfactory to himself; and so we are never without the company of the cheerful pessimist. We might have worse.
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Excerpt from Progress From Experience
Is there really any such thing as progress? And does that of the present time merely consist in follow ing the downward slope? There are those who con sider that the world was not intended to be very good, and that it is quite useless trying to make it better; but that a man has the chance of making his account with the world as it is on terms fairly satisfactory to himself; and so we are never without the company of the cheerful pessimist. We might have worse.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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The most constant, evident and general fact of civilization is progress, the forward movement. Recognizing this we as promptly become aware of a backward facing, wistful or well considered. The romancer finds rich material in the palmy days before the war, in the homespun age of New England and in the brave days of old when knighthood was in flower; while the serious student discovers that all revolutions have been too revolutionary, that part of that which was thought to be destroyed returns unbidden, or that men set about with earnest purpose to restore something of that which was overthrown. The change and advance which no mans hand may stay may be the bringing in of a better order of things in the general estimation or in reality, yet a very human clinging to the past is so large a characteristic of most of us that few words of our daily vocabulary bear to the understanding such an equivocal meaning as progress. No need to divide the human family into the two camps distinguished as conservative and progressive when even those who know their own minds find reason and justification for both sentiments and both attitudes.
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