"Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical,……" — Edward Bellamy
"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."
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Edward Bellamy
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10 Quotes by Edward Bellamy
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Competition, which is the instinct of selfishness, is another word for dissipation of energy, while combination is the secret of…
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The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.
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The folly of men not their hard heartedness was the great cause of the world s poverty.
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Is a man satisfied, merely because he is perfumed himself, to mingle with a malodorous crowd?
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If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.
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With a tear for the dark past, turn we then to the dazzling future, and, veiling our eyes, press forward.…
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I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with…
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I first saw the light in the city of Boston in the year 1857.
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An American credit card...is just as good in Europe as American gold used to be.
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