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    Thoughts Suggested by Mr. Foude's "Progress"
    Thoughts Suggested by Mr. Foude's "Progress"
    Thoughts Suggested by Mr. Foude's "Progress"
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    Thoughts Suggested by Mr. Foude's "Progress"

    By Charles Dudley Warner

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Thoughts Suggested by Mr. Foude's "Progress" - Charles Dudley Warner

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      Title: Thoughts Suggested By Mr. Froude's Progress

      Author: Charles Dudley Warner

      Release Date: December 6, 2004 [EBook #3121]

      Language: English

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      THOUGHTS SUGGESTED BY MR. FROUDE'S PROGRESS

      By Charles Dudley Warner

      To revisit this earth, some ages after their departure from it, is a common wish among men. We frequently hear men say that they would give so many months or years of their lives in exchange for a less number on the globe one or two or three centuries from now. Merely to see the world from some remote sphere, like the distant spectator of a play which passes in dumb show, would not suffice. They would like to be of the world again, and enter into its feelings, passions, hopes; to feel the sweep of its current, and so to comprehend what it has become.

      I suppose that we all who are thoroughly interested in this world have this desire. There are some select souls who sit apart in calm endurance, waiting to be translated out of a world they are almost tired of patronizing, to whom the whole thing seems, doubtless, like a cheap performance. They sit on the fence of criticism, and cannot for the life of them see what the vulgar crowd make such a toil and sweat about. The prizes are the same dreary, old, fading bay wreaths. As for the soldiers marching past, their uniforms are torn, their hats are shocking, their shoes are dusty, they do not appear (to a man sitting on the fence) to march with any kind of spirit, their flags are old and tattered, the drums they beat are barbarous; and, besides, it is not probable that they are going anywhere; they will merely come round again, the same people, like the marching chorus in the Beggar's Opera. Such critics, of course, would not care to see the vulgar show over again; it is enough for them to put on record their protest against it in the weekly Judgment Days which they edit, and by-and-by withdraw out of their private boxes, with pity for a world in the creation of which they were not consulted.

      The desire to revisit this earth is, I think, based upon a belief, well-nigh universal, that the world is to make some progress, and that it will be more interesting in the future than it is now. I believe that the human mind, whenever it is developed enough to comprehend its own action, rests, and has always rested, in this expectation. I do not know any period of time in which the civilized mind has not had expectation of something better for the race in the future. This expectation is sometimes stronger than it is at others; and,

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