““You are aware, my dear sir,—you must have observed it in your own experience,—that all human progress is in a circle; or, to use a more accurate and beautiful figure, in an ascending spiral curve. While we fancy ourselves going straight forward, and attaining, at every step, an entirely new position of affairs, we do actually return to something long ago tried and abandoned, but which we now find etherealized, refined, and perfected to its ideal. The past is but a coarse and sensual prophecy of the present and the future.””
![“[The past] has a way of hanging around, demanding we understand it and weave it into ourselves so that we can go on.” quote by Margaret Coel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e7c/margaret-coel-83266_hanging-around_the-past-has-a-way-of-hanging-around-dem_655161.jpg)
