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Westward the star of empire takes its way. Laws and institutions are constantly tend- United States. United States. Laws and institutions are constantly tending to gravitate. Like clocks, they must be occasionally cleansed, and wound up, and set to true time. Westward the course of empire takes its way ; Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first Acts already past, A fifth shall close the Drama with the day; Time's noblest offspring is the last. C. Prospect of Planting Arts and Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America. Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be. ROBERT BROWNING-A Death in the— ROBERT BROWNING — A Death in the

Desert. Progress is The law of life, man is not Man as yet.— ROBERT BROWNING — Paracelsus. Pt. V.

All things journey: sun and moon, Morning, noon, and afternoon, Night and all her stars; 'Twixt the east and western bars Round they journey, Come and go! We go with them!— GEORGE ELIOT — Spanish Gypsy. Bk. III. Song.

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.— HENRY GEORGE — Progress and Poverty.

Introductory. The Problem. To look up and not down, To look forward and not back, To look out and not in-and To lend a hand.— EDWARD EVERETT HALE — Rule of the

"Harry Wadsworth Club" (from "Ten Times One is Ten." 1870). Ch. IV. We are swinging round the circle.— ANDREW JOHNSON — Of the Presidential

"Reconstruction," August, 1866. From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the evil in its nature.— LOWELL — Festina Lente. Moral.

Equidem æternâ constitutione crediderim nexuque causarum latentium et multo ante destinatarum suum quemque ordinem immutabili lege percurrere. For my own part I am persuaded that everything advances by an unchangeable law through the eternal constitution and association of latent causes, which have been long before predestinated.— QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS — De Rebus

Gestis Alexandri Magni. V. 11.

Il est un terme de la vie au-delà duquel en rétrograde en avançant. There is a period of life when we go back as we advance.— ROUSSEAU — Émile. II.

Qui n'a pas l'esprit de son âge, De son âge a tout le malheur. He who has not the spirit of his age, has all the misery of it.— VOLTAIRE — Lettre à Cideville.

Vogue la galère. Row on whatever happens. S.— RABELAIS — Gargantua. I. 3.