Gertrude Stein Quote

From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still and death would speedily ensue. It is one of the tamest of platitudes but it is always introduced by a flourish of trumpets.

"Form and Intelligibility," from The Radcliffe Manuscripts (1949); written in 1894 as an undergraduate at Radcliffe College

From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still and death would speedily...

From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still and death would speedily...

From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still and death would speedily...

From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still and death would speedily...