The argument from economics to biology and back again, is said to be nearing exposure; the "progress of the species through the internecine struggle of its individuals at the margin of subsistence," is the outgoing idea.

But the rapid progress of education in the villages and outlying districts is the element which is most worthy of thoughtful consideration.

Progress is the law of all being, and seventy years of life is generally enough for the majority.

At one place there is a belt thirty miles wide, and our progress was perpetual torture, unless we passed that way at night.

Add to this the fact that Pilgrim's Progress was the only book having any story interest in the great majority of English and American homes for a full century, and we have found the real reason for its wide reading.

This progress is an alteration which is imperceptible, but has not the form of an alteration.

General progress, evinced in various ways, above all in respect for and in the autonomy of other peoples, is a guarantee for all.

From this point, our progress was uninterrupted climbing.

Such instances, however, are extremely rare, and form the exceptions to the general rule; for "no reasonable doubt can be entertained, from the abundance of facts now before the world, that such modification is the law of the animal economy, and that the regular or natural progress is the exception.

The Pilgrim's Progress is a prose drama.

The progress of his creed is his sole subject; and other topics are introduced either to illustrate this or as digressions suggested by it.

They will thus be conferring a benefit upon humanity and ending one of the most grinding and barbarous tyrannies that the modern world has ever seen; the progress made by the Armenians under Russian rule during the past twenty years is a happy augury for the future of this race when once united in common allegiance to the Tsar, under a wise system of local autonomy.

Now, some lizards are so long that they cannot keep from sagging, and their progress becomes a painful wriggle.

" "Truethey are fearful signals to let us know the progress of the fire!our resource is a raft.

Material progress, however magnificent, is not the guaranty, not even the cardinal element, of civilization.

The progress of settlements and the increase of an industrious population owning an interest in the soil they cultivate are the causes which will build them up into great and flourishing commonwealths.

Slow progress was not the only trouble Lucy had to contend with.

Their progress was one series of triumphs, till they placed Gustavus Vasa on the throne of Sweden.

Again, it is assumed that progress in one point is progress in all; that because we surpass all other races and generations in physical science and useful arts, we surpass them in every other way; and that they must be far behind us in ethical and religious conceptions, as they are in inventions and the production of comforts.

It is only at the end of such a dialectic of concepts that philosophy reaches complete correspondence with the living reality, which it has to comprehend; and the speculative progress of thought is no capricious sporting with concepts on the part of the thinking subject, but the adequate expression of the movement of the matter itself.

Now we present unto each pitying eye The scholars' progress in their misery: Refined wits, your patience is our bliss; Too weak our scene, too great your judgment is: To you we seek to show a scholar's state, His scorned fortunes, his unpity'd fate; To you: for if you did not scholars bless, Their case, poor case, were too-too pitiless.

Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress was Mr. Ponder's copy, Milton's Paradise Lost Mr. Tonson's copy, The Whole Duty of Man Mr. Eyre's copy, and so on.

Progress was the great desideratum; and change was the hand-maiden of progress.

The command appears to have been given, at his own request, to General Kearney; and as the wagon train was heavily laden, the progress of the column was very slowthe expedition reaching the Rio San Gabriel on January 8, 1847although the enemy had offered no opposition to its progress even in passes where a small force could have effectively kept it back.

Our progress was a succession of marvellous escapes for human toes and bovine shoulders, but our "helmsman steered us through," and we emerged from the kaleidoscopic labyrinth into the open space before the Fort of Lahore, whose pinkish brick walls and ponderous bastions rose above us.