Arthur Balfour Quote

Those who look forward to a period of continuous and, so to speak, inevitable progress, are bound to assign some more solid reason for their convictions than a merely empirical survey of the surface lessons of history.... Humanity, civilisation, progress itself, must have a tendency to mitigate the harsh methods by which Nature has wrought out the variety and the perfection of organic life.

A Fragment on Progress (1891)

Those who look forward to a period of continuous and, so to speak, inevitable progress, are bound to assign some more solid reason for their...

Those who look forward to a period of continuous and, so to speak, inevitable progress, are bound to assign some more solid reason for their...

Those who look forward to a period of continuous and, so to speak, inevitable progress, are bound to assign some more solid reason for their...

Those who look forward to a period of continuous and, so to speak, inevitable progress, are bound to assign some more solid reason for their...