4 Metaphors for progression

Space is not measurable: we attribute dimensionality to space because such is the method of the mind; and that dimensionality we attribute to space is progressive because progression is a law of the mind.

These momentaneous progressions are also changes of state; for the subsequent adds something to the antecedent, which perfects the state.

He has the animal trotted, and may notice at this stage that there is an inclination to go on the toes, that the lame limb or limbs are not put forward freely, and that progression is stilty and uncertain; it is such, in fact, as to at once suggest the possibility of corns being present.

Since 1891, therefore, progression or graduation has been in New Zealand a cardinal principle of direct taxation.

4 Metaphors for  progression