Progress is the life-style of man.
Sing your praise of progress and the doom machine, the naked truth is still taboo whenever it can be seen.
The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.
History is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression.
Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us
Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.
And step by step, since time began, I see the steady gain of man.
I am certainly convinced that it is one of the greatest impulses of mankind to arrive at something higher than a natural state.
We must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race.
Further march of civilization seems to employ increasing domination of man over beast, together with a growingly humane method of using them.
The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round.
We may therefore acquiesce in the pleasing conclusion, that every age of the world has increased, and still increases, the real wealth, the happiness, the knowledge, and perhaps the virtue, of the human race.
It is inherent in human consciousness to improve. So there is nothing unique about a people searching for and creating ways to make their life better - all civilizations throughout history have done this. What is unique about us in America is the accelerated rate at which we continually search for novelty and progress.
The march of human progress seemed mainly a matter of getting over that initial shock of being here.
letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation.
How far have we come in man's long pilgrimage from darkness toward light? Are we nearing the light-a day of freedom and of peace for all mankind? Or are the shadows of another night closing in upon us?
