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With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three
thousand miles closer to globular cluster 13 in the constellation read more
With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three
thousand miles closer to globular cluster 13 in the constellation
Hercules, and still there are some misfits who continue to insist
that there is no such thing as progress.
All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral
with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution read more
Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral
with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and
dissolution.
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
Westward the star of empire takes its way.
Westward the star of empire takes its way.
"Spiral!" the memorable Lady terms
Our mind's ascent.
"Spiral!" the memorable Lady terms
Our mind's ascent.
To look up and not down,
To look forward and not back,
To look out and not read more
To look up and not down,
To look forward and not back,
To look out and not in--and
To lend a hand.
Those who work most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand least.
Those who work most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand least.
What is art
But life upon the larger scale, the higher,
When, graduating up in a spiral read more
What is art
But life upon the larger scale, the higher,
When, graduating up in a spiral line
Of still expanding and ascending gyres,
It pushed toward the intense significance
Of all things, hungry for the Infinite?
Art's life--and where we live, we suffer and toil.
