The history of life was not the bumbling progress — the very English, middle-class progress — Victorian thought had wanted it to be, but violent, a thing of dramatic, cumulative transformations: in the old formulation, more revolution than evolution.


The Satanic Verses (1988)

Salman Rushdie Quotes

The history of life was not the bumbling progress — the very English, middle-class progress — Victorian thought had wanted it to be, but violent, ...

The history of life was not the bumbling progress — the very English, middle-class progress — Victorian thought had wanted it to be, but violent, ...

The history of life was not the bumbling progress — the very English, middle-class progress — Victorian thought had wanted it to be, but violent, ...

The history of life was not the bumbling progress — the very English, middle-class progress — Victorian thought had wanted it to be, but violent, ...