The wisdom of mankind creeps slowly on,
Subject to every doubt that can retard
Or fling it back upon an earlier time.


Orion (1843), Book iii, Canto ii.

Richard Henry Horne Quotes

The wisdom of mankind creeps slowly on, Subject to every doubt that can retard Or fling it back upon an earlier time.

The wisdom of mankind creeps slowly on, Subject to every doubt that can retard Or fling it back upon an earlier time.

The wisdom of mankind creeps slowly on, Subject to every doubt that can retard Or fling it back upon an earlier time.

The wisdom of mankind creeps slowly on, Subject to every doubt that can retard Or fling it back upon an earlier time.