The belief in progress, not as an ideal but as an indisputable fact, not as a task for humanity but as a law of Nature, has been the working faith of the West for about a hundred and fifty years.

There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggle. "You forget," said the Devil, with a chuckle, "that I have been evolving too."

If we look at a wider canvas, humanity has witnessed unimaginable, enormous and immeasurable changes and progress in the last one thousand years.

The further humanity moves forward , the quicker it progresses

I told him it was my belief that there was no arson. He just asked me questions about forced entry, things like this. All the doors were locked. There was not forced entry.

A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.