Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Alexander Pope

An Essay on Criticism

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Author

Alexander Pope

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An Essay on Criticism

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Poem

Language

English

Time

1711 1710s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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United Kingdom Europe

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Original Citation

Pope, Alexander, [published anonymously]. "An Essay on Criticism." London: W. Lewis, 1711, pt. 2, l. 335.

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Pope, Alexander. "An Essay on Criticism." Alexander Pope: The Major Works, edited by Pat Rogers. Oxford University Press, 2009, pt. 2, l. 335.

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It may be said likewise in respect of perfect wisdom, which is no less orderly than mathematics, that if there were not the best among all possible worlds, God would not have produced any.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Theodicy

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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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Time
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Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm. Theodicy: Essays on the Goodness of God and Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil. 1710, pt. 1.

Another quote about Change

Come mothers and fathers,
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand.

Bob Dylan

The Times They Are a-Changin' (song)

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Change Progress
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Bob Dylan
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The Times They Are a-Changin' (song) The Times They Are a-Changin' (album)
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Language
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Time
1964 1960s 20th century
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Dylan, Bob. "The Times They Are a-Changin'." The Times They Are a-Changin'. Columbia Records, 1965.

Another quote from Age of Enlightenment

Moreover, in a system of two bodies mutually acting upon each other, since the differences between their centres and the common centre of gravity of both are reciprocally as the bodies, the relative motions of those bodies, whether of approaching to or of receding from that centre, will be equal junong themselves. Therefore since the changes which happen to motions are equal and directed to contrary parts.

Isaac Newton

Principia

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Isaac Newton
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Principia
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Scientific literature
Language
Latin
Time
1687 1680s 17th century
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Age of Enlightenment
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Original Citation

Newton, Isaac. "Axiomata sive Leges Motus: [Axioms, or Laws of Motion]." Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica [The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy], vol. 1. London: Josephi Streater, 1687, law 3.

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Newton, Isaac. "Axioms, or the Laws of Motion." The Principia, translated by Andrew Motte. Prometheus, 1995, law 3.