“Resistance to improvement contradicts the noblest instincts of the race. It begets its opposite. The fanaticism of reform is only the raging of the accumulated waters caused by the obstructions which an ultra conservatism has thrown across the stream of progress; and revolution itself is but the sudden overwhelming and sweeping away of impediments that should have been seasonably removed.” ShouldHas BeensWaterRaceProgressRevolutionShould HaveOppositesInstinctRageImprovementResistanceReformStreamsThrownOverwhelmingConservatismFanaticismShould Have BeenBegetsSweepingImpedimentsObstructionUltras Author:Horace Mann
“But although the attractive virtue of the earth extends upwards, as has been said, so very far, yet if any stone should be at a distance great enough to become sensible compared with the earth's diameter, it is true that on the motion of the earth such a stone would not follow altogether; its own force of resistance would be combined with the attractive force of the earth, and thus it would extricate itself in some degree from the motion of the earth.” IfsShouldHas BeensSaidEnoughWould BeEarthForceVirtueDegreesStonesDistanceResistanceAttractiveSensible Author:Johannes Kepler