“The rise of each generation gives new ties towards the future, which insensibly dissolves those which bind us to the past”

— Robert Chambers (publisher, born 1802)

Source: Sanitary Economy (1850), p. 29-30
Context: The rise of each generation gives new ties towards the future, which insensibly dissolves those which bind us to the past; and the natural old age of the human race seems to have adjusted itself to that period beyond which the human being would feel isolated and desolate in the midst of the new objects of attachment which the progress of time brings into existence.

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