3 Edward Bellamy Quotes on History

Edward Bellamy quotes on history

8. Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. the idea of indefinite progress in a right line was a chimera of the imagination, with no analogue in nature. The parabola of a comet was perhaps a better illustration of the career of humanity. Tending upward and sunward from the aphelion of barbarism, the race attained the perihelion of civilization only to plunge downward once more to its nether goal in the regions of chaos.

13. Badly off as the men...were in your day, they were more fortunate than their mothers and wives.

19. On no other stage are the scenes shifted with a swiftness so like magic as on the great stage of history when once the hour strikes.