Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.
The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protects it, must still be the truest type of progress.
Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.
We all know that each generation has its own test, the contemporaneous and current standard by which alone it can adequately judge of its own moral achievements, and that it may not legitimately use a previous and less vigorous test. The advanced test must indeed include that which has already been attained; but if it includes no more, we shall fail to go forward, thinking complacently that we have "arrived" when in reality we have not yet started.
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