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“When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments. Here was a machine of precision and balance for the convenience of man. And (unlike subsequent inventions for man's convenience) the more he used it, the fitter his body became. Here, for once, was a product of man's brain that was entirely beneficial to those who used it, and of no harm or irritation to others. Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle.”

“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.”

“Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle.”

Men Should Progress Should Have Cycles Bike Touring Bicycle Transport Cycling Biking Cyclists Tandem Tandem Bikes Tandem Bicycles

Author:Elizabeth West

“If we trace the progress of our minds, and with attention observe how it repeats, adds together, and unites its simple ideas received from sensation or reflection, it will lead us farther than at first, perhaps, we should have imagined.”

Ifs Should Mind Firsts Ideas Together Simple Attention Progress Reflection Should Have Add Repeats Sensations Simple Ideas

Book:An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Source: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

“Hymns should have unity, graduation and mutual dependence in the thoughts, a conscious progress, a sense of completeness and be easily understood.”

Should Progress Conscious Understood Should Have Unity Mutual Dependence Hymns Completeness

Author:James Montgomery

“I'm very conscious of the fact that every line should have a cadence to it. It should contribute to the progress of the poem. And that the ending of the line is a way of turning the reader's attention back into the interior of the poem.”

Way Should Facts Lines Attention Progress Reader Conscious Should Have Interiors Cadence

Author:Billy Collins

“Think of US slavery in 1850, or the subjection of women. Both of these injustices could have been - and were! - defended by pointing out, quite correctly, that this situation of slaves and women had been improving throughout the preceding century. Slaves, in particular, were worked less hard, beaten and raped less frequently, better fed, and less often ripped apart from their families. So would a celebration of moral progress have been appropriate in 1850? Surely not. Slavery could have been and should have been abolished - then, if not before.”