MANS PROGRESS
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Animals make no progress. The heXagona!
cells of bees we're rs accurately measured and I'M
ished thousand years ago as they are at tho pre-
sent dav. II is not so with man, who Is born ior
eternity. He is ignorant at first, but constantly
ACQUIRES knowledge; not only from his own expor'
ience, bu, from tho accumulated wisdom oi his
nredecessors Men are now very nearly IN me
81 me condition that the ancient philosophers wou'd
lave arrived at, if they could have lived TIL our
times, constantly adding to their knowledge what
thew nigh, have acquired by study during so many
centuries. All the generations of men during so
MANY ages ought to bo considered on as one
man who lives forever. and is sconlnualy learning.
Hence. how mproper ii is to respect philosophers
for their antiquity! For as old ago Is the Per'oo
far,he,t removed from infancy. who does mol sec
tina, the oil age of this universal man ought mol
to be sough, for in years nearest to his or'n' o"'
in those most remote from it! Those who'n we
call the ancirnts we're truly vonng IN a' mugs
, nd formed the infancy of mankind. AS we nave
Joined to their knowledge the experience Oh tne
og.s which came after them. 1t is IN US tha' '"'s


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