The march of intellect.

 

The march of intellect.
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Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society, No. 1, pt. 14. Compare: "The march of the human mind is slow", [{Edmund Burke]], Speech on the Conciliation of America, Vol. ii., p. 149.

 

Robert Southey

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