PROGRESS PROGRESS
Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone,
Not God's, and not the beast's;
God is, they are,
Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.
Progress is
The law of life, man is not
Man as yet.
Like plants in mines, which never saw the sun,
But dream of him, and guess where he may be,
And do their best to climb, and get to him.
Hombre apercebido medio combatido.
A man prepared has half fought the battle.
All things journey: sun and moon,
Morning, noon, and afternoon, Night and all her stars; 'Twixt the east and western bars Round they journey, Come and go! We go with them! George Eliot—Spanish Gypsy. Bk. III. Song. </poem>
And striving to be Man, the worm
Mounts through all the spires of form.
Emerson—Mayday.
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| text = <poem>So long as all the increased wealth which
modern progress brings, goes but to build up
great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make
sharper the contest between the House of Have
and the House of Want, progress is not real and
cannot be permanent.
Henry George—Progress and Poverty. Introductory. The Problem.
Progress has not followed a straight ascending
line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and
retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
Goethe.
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| text = <poem>He who moves not forward goes backward!
A capital saying!
Goethe—Herman and Dorothea. Canto III.
L.66.
To look up and not down.
To look forward and not back,
To look out and not in—and
To lend a hand.
Edward Everett Hale—Rule of the "Harry
Wadsworth Club." From Ten Times One is
Ten. (1870) Ch. IV.
I have seen that Man moves over with each
new generation into a bigger body, more awful,
more reverent and more free than he has had
before.
Gerald Stanley Lee—Crowds. Pt. II. Ch.
III.
From lower to the higher next,
Not to the top, is Nature's text;
And embryo good, to reach full stature,
Absorbs the evil in its nature.
| author = Lowell
| work = Festina Lente. Moral.
New occasions teach new duties, time makes
ancient good uncouth;
They must upward still and onward, who would
keep abreast of truth.
| author = Lowell
| work = Present Crisis.
"Spiral" the memorable Lady terms
Our mind's ascent.
George Meredith—The World's Advance.
G. M. Trevelyan in notes to Meredith's
Poetical Works says the "memorable Lady"
is Mrs. Browning.
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| text = <poem>That in our proper motion we ascend
Up to our native seat; descent and fall
To us is adverse.
| author = Milton
| work = Paradise Lost.
| place = Bk. II. L. 75.
Quod sequitur, fugio; quod fugit, usque sequor.
What follows I flee; what flees I ever pursue.
Ovid—Amorum. II. 19, 36.
Vogue la galere.
Row on [whatever happens].
Rabelais—Oargantua. I. 3.
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II est un terme de la vie au-dela duquel en
retrograde en avancant.
There is a period of life when we go back
as we advance.
| author = Rousseau
| work = EmUe. II.
<poem>The march of intellect.
Robert Southey—Sir T. More, or Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society. Vol. II. P. 361. Quoted by Carlyle—Miscel. Essays. Vol. I. P. 162. (Ed. 1888)
<poem>L'esprit humain fait progres toujours, mais
c'est progres en spirale. The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals. Madame de Staël.
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| num = | text = <poem>If you strike a thorn or rose,
Keep a-goin'! If it hails or if it snows, Keep a-goin'! 'Tain't no use to sit and whine 'Cause the fish ain't on your line; Bait you hook an' keep on tryin', Keep a-goin'! Frank L. Stanton—Keep a-goin.'
