Henry Adams Quotes About Progress
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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
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Mr Jefferson meant that the American system should be a democracy, and he would rather have let the whole world perish than that this principle, which to him represented all that man was worth, should fail. Mr Hamilton considered democracy a fatal curse, and meant to stop its progress.
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The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
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Laplace would have found it child's-play to fix a ratio of progression in mathematical science between Descartes, Leibnitz, Newton and himself
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