The advancement of the arts from year to year taxes our credulity, and seems to presage the arrival of that period when human improvement must end.

Henry L. Ellsworth

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Technological progress Progress

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Henry L. Ellsworth

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English

Time

1843 1840s 19th century

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Lawyer

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United States

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Ellsworth, Henry L. "Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents for the Year." U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 1843.

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Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

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Alfred Tennyson
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Locksley Hall Poems
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Time
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Tennyson, Alfred. "Locksley Hall." Poems. Vol. 2, London: Edward Moxon, 1842, I. 182.

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Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. "Locksley Hall." Alfred Tennyson: The Major Works, edited by Adam Roberts. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 182.

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There can be no progress (real, that is, moral) except in the individual and by the individual himself.

Charles Baudelaire

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Personal growth Nature of progress Progress

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Charles Baudelaire
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French
Time
1867 1860s 19th century
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Baudelaire, Charles. Mon Coeur mis a nu [My Naked Heart]. Paris, 1887, no. 15.

Current Citation

Baudelaire, Charles. "My Heart Laid Bare." Late Fragments: Flares, My Heart Laid Bare, Prose Poems, Belgium Disrobed, translated by Richard Sieburth. Yale University Press, 2022, no. 15.