Word: progressivity
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...this universe has taken fast hold upon thinking men. Especially is this the case as to the life of man as man upon our planet. While a quiet evolution is easily seen in laws and political institutions, a more violent process is no less evident. So far the progress of man has been, far more than we could have wished, by catastrophies...
Take the way by which these colonies were separated from England. One of two ways of progress was possible, either by right reason or by revolution. The revolutionary method prevailed. The result was the immediate loss of much Anglo-Saxon blood. Again, Turgot's efforts to bring about a gradual development of political liberty in France were of no avail against the ultra-conservatives and the Revolution followed. Even in the case of our Civil War, Henry Clay and other statesmen saw it was inevitable that slavery and freedom must conflict many years before the crisis came and they sought...
...Mandolin Club is rehearsing regularly and making excellent progress. Three pieces are at present being played...
...these events. The chief reason for this poor showing is to be found in the small number of men who have come out. Many men who are physically fitted to do good work in the weights begin training with the squad and, merely because they do not make rapid progress at first, soon drop out and leave the team to make its usual poor showing in the hammer and shot...
Rossiter Johnson, Ph. D., of New York, "The Progress of Invention...