The book begins by declaring that all is vanity, that there is nothing new under the sun, no progress in any direction, but all things revolving in an endless circle, so that there is neither meaning nor use in the world.
Yet the Protestant denominations make converts, build churches, and support their clergy with an ardor seemingly undiminished by the progress of science.
The Talmud, that mighty maze of Jewish thought, commencing after the return from the captivity, contains the history of the gradual progress and development of the national mind.
And just as the Roman state was first a help and then a hindrance to the progressof humanity, so it has been with the Roman Catholic Church.
Finally, this department of Comparative Theology shows the relation of each partial religion to human civilization, and observes how each religion of the world is a step in the progress of humanity.
It is not perplexed by any fear or hope of change; the thing which has been is that which shall be; and the very idea of progress is eliminated from the thought of China.
Since the days of Sir William Jones immense progress has been made in the study of Sanskrit literature, especially within the last thirty or forty years, from the time when the Schlegels led the way in this department.
Nothing like the progress and the development of Christian civilization appears in Buddhism.
Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and Progressof the Religion and Institutions of India.
Success is bad, progress is an evil; for these take us away from others, and leave us lonely, because above them and hated by them.
Noble passed from her sight, but nevertheless continued his radiant progress down Julia's Street.
Julia's heightened colour, meanwhile, was little abated by some slight episodes attending the progress of the walking-party.
Warmly attached to evangelical religion, and deeply interested in the purity and progress of the church of Christ throughout the world, he earnestly promoted the cause of Christian missions, and kindred schemes of benevolence.
Michael was a great favorite at school, and made rapid progress in his studies.
While his progress in learning was much interrupted in this way, his mind was advancing, nevertheless, by communion with nature and his own individual heart.
He entered this institution in his fifteenth year, and made unusual progress in his studies.
Being Essays on the Rise and Progress of Commerce, with a relation of the Romantic Episodes connected with its History.
Though its shape is not suited to running, it can progress in this manner to a considerable distance, as we often saw by its tracks, which extended sometimes for more than a mile over sand and shingle down to the bank of the river.
Its gait is so extremely awkward, that it may be said to progress by means of a series of short clumsy jumps, rather than by hopping in the usual manner.
I have traced her progress from injuries to arms, and from arms to liberty.
Ireland imported glass from other countries, and at length began to make some slow progress in the lower branches of the manufacture itself.
In all sciences," Kennedy went on, warming to his subject, "progress is made by a careful tabulation of proved facts.
It seemed to me that he had made comparatively little progress so far.
In the Pacific Northwest the era of construction has not ended, but it is so rapidly inprogress that we can already see the closing of the age of the pioneer.
Great progress has been made in civilization through contact with the whites.
Since I have been here last very little progresshas been made in the building.
This religion has taken such a firm hold upon them that Christianity is making no progress at all at the present time.
The men employed as yesterday, those in search of the boat timber found three trees suitable for the purpose & have made some progress in squaring them.
On the whole, however, it must be said that progress in the right direction is slowly being accomplished.
Mr. Quadra was making preparation for his departure with all dispatch, and considerable progress had been made in unloading the Doedalus.
The men who were here before have made but very little progress in the work.
Indian affairs and impeding the progress of the Indian as a whole.
The causes assigned for this slow progress is principally the want of a proper hand to lay out the work for the men.
Some progress can be noted among the old people, however.
What progress the Indian has made, therefore, toward civilization can be traced directly to his relations with the whites, and similarly the evil conditions of life among a great number of our Indians can be traced to the same cause.
Perhaps one of the best and most hopeful signs of progress is the growing interest and rapid improvement in education.
The Indians occupy the greater part of their time gambling, even where it is snowing they are playing out of doors and a group sitting about the parties engaged watching the progress of the game.
As the valley narrowed, the grade became much steeper, and their progress was correspondingly slower.
He was testing him out, to see whether the desire for work was just a whim or whether Charley possessed that real ambition, that inward spirit of progress that drives a man on and on through the years to greater and greater accomplishments.
The pass through the mountains, in a military point of view, presents most admirable means of impeding the progress of an enemy.
Our stay was marked by the subversion of his power and of the Arab rule; and the journal of every day naturally contained ample accounts of the progress of an event, which was locally so prominent and important.
At the bottom of every valley invariably runs a stream, the progress of which is marked by the trees and by the fertility which borders it, and which accompanies it in all its windings.
In the progress of his government, the Khan still continued to exasperate the principal inhabitants by extorting donations of their goods.
In my rapidprogress I could just ascertain that the place contained some well-built houses, and some in situations that must have commanded fine and extensive views of all its scenery.
In our progress we overtook immense spars which were dragged by buffaloes, and by slow journies are thus brought to Constantinople.
At the gate, however, notwithstanding all his exertions, the closing numbers detained our progress for above a quarter of an hour; and vollies of blows were necessary to clear the entrance.
The evening set in gloomily; Deibeed is considered the coldest spot in this region, and the snows in the winter have sometimes impeded the progress of travellers for forty days together.
In the Journal this is the first notice of the Istakball, which so frequently recurs in the future progress of the mission, as an honorary assemblage called forth to receive a distinguished traveller, and to conduct him in his passage.
Our camp was usually quiet, but in our later progress it was disturbed by the quarrels of our own servants (who were mostly from Farsistan) and those of the Mehmandar (who were natives of Irak).
At the opposite extreme, we have writers like Brooks Adams (Law of Civilization and Decay), who see the fate of nations and the progress of civilization resting on the abundance or scarcity of money.
It seems to me that this distinction must be kept clear if progress in the science is to be made.
But after a time they settle into their proper relations, incorporate themselves in the world, and become new sources of power and progress in history.
Look at the progress of similar enterprises among yourselves in the state of Maine, and other parts of New England, and then say whether anything is required of us but union of effort and faith in the result of our exertions.
It was evident that with the House as then constituted no progress could be made unless a change were brought about in the views of some of its members by outside pressure.
Phyllis at last, her curiosity piqued by the slowness of progress in this small canal.
As we moved, our progress not only sent an advance wave racing along the dyke, but tossed up a procession of tiny rainbow fountains, as if we threw handfuls of sapphires and diamonds into the water in passing.
The very thing he has refused to understand is, that if we invariably followed custom, the follies of the past would never be swept away, nor the rocks which hinder our progress burst asunder.
This book was not written with the intention of describing Shakespeare's triumphant progress through the world, nor of telling the tale of his world-wide dominion.
In some respects, however, Elizabeth in her later years had made progress in the art of government.
Nothing, but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar.
It was upon the third day of their progress from Opar that the keen ears of Tarzan caught the sound of men behind them.
WE have now arrived at that stage in the story of the Norman Cross Depot when, although the whole of the buildings were not yet erected, sufficient progress had been made for the occupation of a part of them.
His progress was not, however, so marked as to insure his salary and expenses; in fact, the whole history of these early years represents the hardest kind of struggle against financial difficulties.
The Greenback movement at first made but slow progress in the various States.
It is enough to say here that I think the progress of these ideals has broken down at the precise point where they will fail to prevent the experiment.
Briefly, the progress will have deprived the Capitalist of his old Individualist scruples, without committing him to his new Collectivist obligations.
Real progress bears the same relation to it that a happy girl laughing bears to an hysterical girl who cannot stop laughing.
What has been their progress as a popular game; and what influence have they had on society?
To take recreation, in order to make progress with our work,' was the judicious maxim of an ancient sage.
There was no money on hand, the board of treasury had notified that they could not remit any; and the progress of the loan which had been opened there, had absolutely stopped.
You will have seen in the public papers the progress they are making in this matter.
It was easier to discover, than to remove, the causes which obstructed the progress of the loan.
But they are not, and they will, therefore, find out some arrangement either perpetual or temporary to stop theprogress of the civil war begun in that country.
If its progress be not stopped by a little moderation in the Democrats, it will turn the scale decidedly in favor of the Stadtholder, in the event of their being left to themselves without foreign interference.
So that, at this moment, we may consider the progress of our loan as stopped.
There are not wanting persons at the helm, friends to the progress of this spirit.
Little is said lately of the progress of the negotiations between the courts of Petersburg, Vienna and Versailles.
We are enabled to conjecture its progress only from facts which now and then show themselves.
The omission of the doctrine of recollection, derived from a previous state of existence, is a note of progress in the philosophy of Plato.
The plan is complicated, or rather, perhaps, the want of plan renders the progress of the dialogue difficult to follow.
The distinction between perception, memory, recollection, and opinion which indicates a great progress in psychology; also between understanding and imagination, which is described under the figure of the scribe and the painter.
Having complete control over her own immense wealth, she used it largely for beneficent purposes; to her encouragement much of the progress of art and literature in France was due.
It also encouraged progressand displayed acute discrimination, keeping pace with the time in all that was new and meritorious.
With her, the question was not one of dogma, but concerned, instead, the religion which she considered most conducive to progress and reform.
Lambert was not opened until 1710, and therefore the discussion of it belongs properly to the beginning of the eighteenth century, really closes the literary progress of the seventeenth century.
The difficulty is to know how to adapt ourselves to the slow step of time, whose progress can never be forced on without danger.
I have followed the progress of this aerial habitation from the first day.
