“Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken with out developing new evils requiring new remedies.”

Interview with the Economist (September 10, 2019)

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 442.

Source: Middlemarch

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 284.

Hymn

Source: The Flame is Green (1971), Ch. 9 : Oh, The Steep Roofs of Paris
Context: In this growing there are no really new things or new situations. There are only things growing out right, or things growing out deformed or shriveled. There is nothing new about railways or foundries or lathes or steel furnaces. They also are green-growing things. There is nothing new about organizations of men or of money. All these growing things are good, if they grow towards the final answers that were given in the beginning.

I take little pleasure in dwelling upon the errors and blemishes of a book rendered venerable to me by intrinsic wisdom and imperishable associations. But...when its passages are invoked to justify the imposition of a yoke, irksome because unnatural, we are driven in self-defence to be critical.
New Fragments (1892)

On the Seventh Five Year Plan in 1985, p. 35,
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