“Exploration and invention were the two faces on the coin of progress, and progress was the spirit of the age”
David von Drehle
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
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“The death of the spirit is the price of progress.”
Eric Voegelin
“The Victorian Age, for all its humbug, was a period of rapid progress, because men were dominated by hope rather than fear. If we are again to have progress, we must again be dominated by hope.”
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“[Americans] were, for one thing, so smitten with the idea of progress that they invented things without having any idea whether those things would be of any use.”
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