Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.

Willa Cather

Death Comes for the Archbishop

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Technological progress Technology Progress Modern life The human condition

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Eusabio

Author

Willa Cather

Source

Death Comes for the Archbishop

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1929 1920s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

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United States

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Citation

Cather, Willa. Death Comes for the Archbishop. Alfred A. Knopf, 1927, bk. 9, ch. 6.

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The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.

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The Professor's House

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The Professor's House
Medium
Novel
Language
English
Time
1925 1920s 20th century
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Citation

Cather, Willa. The Professor's House. Alfred A. Knopf, 1925, bk. 1, ch. 8.

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Source
Maritime History of Massachusetts
Genre
Historical literature
Language
English
Time
1921 1920s 20th century
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Citation

Morison, Samuel Eliot. The Maritime History of Massachusetts 1783-1860. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1921, ch. 2.

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We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.

Bernard of Chartres

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Scientific progress Progress
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Bernard of Chartres

Author

John of Salisbury
Language
Latin
Time
1159 1150s 12th century
Era
Middle Ages
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Citation

Bernard of Chartres. Quoted in The Metalogicon of John of Salisbury, written by John of Salisbury. c. 1159, bk. 3.