Progress of Indians—See Indians, American.
Progress Resisted—See Drought, Responsibility
for.
PROGRESS, TRUE
Surely we should judge of a man's progress by inquiring what he has been rather than by his present stage alone:
Men march toward civilization in column
formation, and by the time the van has
learned to admire the masters the rear is
drawing reluctantly away from the totem-*pole.
Anywhere in the middle you may find
a veneration for china pugdogs or an enthusiasm
for Marie Corelli—still an advance.
Literary people seem to think that
every time a volume of Hall Caine is sold,
Shakespeare is to that extent neglected. It
merely means that some semisavage has
reached the Hall Caine stage, and we should
wish him godspeed on his way to Shakespeare.
It is only when a pretended Shakespeare
man lapses into Hall Cainery that one
need be excited.—Frank Moore Colby,
"Imaginary Obligations."
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PROGRESS UNFINISHED
To the end of his life, the student whose
frame remains unshaken, writes on morals
and history, on science and on fine art, and
his inquiries in all the departments of nature
are marked by as keen and strenuous an enthusiasm
as when in his youth he traversed
the hills and the valleys on foot. Each
process becomes but a basis for higher ones;
and each successful and wide research but
opens the path to new discoveries. As the
skiff which the boy builds grows at last to
the steamship, and the hut of the pioneer to
the palace which the citizen rears and
adorns—while yet neither of these is felt
to be final with him, or adequate to the
highest conception he can form—so the
thought of the child expands and accumulates
to the science of manhood, and still is admitted
insufficient and transient.—Richard
S. Storrs.
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PROHIBITION
Of course, the experienced drinker can buy
liquor in a prohibition State like Maine. Let
me say to any old toper present, going to
Portland for his summer vacation, that he
can find a drink by going into a side street,
slipping down a dark alley, rapping three
times at a door, wriggling up a back stair-*way,
and by much twisting, convolution and
squirming like a serpent, find what he desires.
But boys and girls will grow up without
the temptation of the open saloon. Of
course, prohibition is not ideal. Making
man temperate by law is a makeshift. There
are men who have not been drunk for ten
years—they are in Sing Sing.
Perhaps, however, if you can not keep some men from committing crime in any other way, it is best to build a stone wall around them. The ideal thing is law enthroned in the heart, an automatic commandment in the brain and will. But the necessary thing for poorly born people may be legal restraints.—N. D. Hillis.
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An English writer refers thus to some impressions of a brother Englishman, traveling through the United States:
When traveling through the United States
some years ago, he was much struck with
the difference in appearance of the houses in
districts where the Maine liquor law was in
force, and soon learned to distinguish where
it was adopted, by the clean, cheerful look
of the workmen's dwellings, the neatness of
the gardens, and the presence of trees and
flowers which, in other districts, were wanting.
He was not a teetotaler himself, and
was not advocating such restrictions; but he
could not help noticing the contrast; and he
felt sure that in all our large towns great
progress in civilization and morals would be
effected if such an attraction were offered to
the working classes.
It is another of the long line of illustrations
showing the intimate connection
between moral and material weal.
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PROHIBITION ARGUED AGAINST
At the fiftieth annual convention of the United States Brewers' Association, the following absurdity was submitted as part of a report:
The whole vegetable world is in a conspiracy
against the prohibitionist. The bees
become intoxicated with the distillation of
the honeysuckle; the wasps grow dizzy in
