“[I]f we could have devised an arrangement for providing everybody with music in their homes, perfect in quality, unlimited in quantity, suited to every mood, and beginning and ceasing at will, we should have considered the limit of human felicity already attained, and ceased to strive for further improvements.” ShouldHumansHomePerfectQualityLimitsShould HaveStriveImprovementMoodQuantityProvidingArrangementsUnlimitedFelicity Book:Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887: American literature Source: Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887: American literature
“Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line was a chimera of the imagination, with no analogue in nature. The parabola of a comet was perhaps a yet better illustration of the career of humanity. Tending upward and sunward from the aphelion of barbarism, the race attained the perihelion of civilization only to plunge downward once more to its nether goal in the regions of chaos.” HumansIdeasHumanityGoalImaginationLinesRaceCareersProgressMovementCivilizationChaosRegionsHuman HistoryPlungeIllustrationBarbarismCometsChimeraAnalogueParabola Book:Looking Backward 2000-1887 Source: Looking Backward 2000-1887
